Re: [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?

[Richard Harke]

> Is he this one?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gerstner
>
> They say he virtually saved IBM from going out of business. If this is
> true (I don't know), then he did more good than bad, in my opinion.
>
> > Scratchpad didn't die a natural death. It was killed by short term,
> > make it pay, thinking. Notre Dame took 300 years to build. Given the
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris
>
> They say it started in 1160 and ended in 1345, so it's only 185 years
> and also it was financed probably by the king and the bishop, but
> definitely not by a private company.
>
> > short term mindset Lou would rather have built it overnight as a
> > prefab wooden house in a suburb using conventional tools and selling
> > for a nice markup.
>
> To save money of IBM. I think it's fair.
In the nineties, it was my understanding that to get Axiom from IBM, you
had to buy their workstation to run it.They refused to port it. They didn't 
think of it as a software product but rather a help to selling their 
hardware.
Same mistake that Macsyma made.

Richard