[tde-users] Re: This won't sadden OS/2 lovers, some of whom are here

On Sun December 28 2025 23:18:20 dep via tde-users wrote:

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/

I think The Register is being a little unfair. Akers had already crippled IBM before Gerstner took over in '93. And Akers problem was that he had done nothing to change IBM as the world changed.