29 Dec
2025
29 Dec
'25
7:18 a.m.
Lou Gerstner has shuffled off this mortal coil. "The CEO misread consumer and business enthusiasm for PCs, allowing Compaq and Dell to overtake the market it pioneered, and Microsoft to dominate the market for PC operating systems to the extent that IBM gave up on OS/2. . . . IBM also lost leadership in networking, storage, processor design, and saw x86 servers drive its mainframe and midrange business into niche markets." But other than that . . .
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/lou_gerstner/
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