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The vote in Florida, and in many other states for that matter, was so close as to be within the statistical margin of error for any existing way to count the vote. This means that in those states the election count is essentially a lottery. All the courtroom battles and other shenanigans are really then just about whether or not the lottery was a fair one. To me that is neither here nor there, the essential point is that it was a lottery, and a lottery because our state legislatures have failed to carefully minimize the randomness in the balloting and counting. That to me says we are indeed a banana republic, not Florida alone, but the whole darn country.
Pretty clear George W. will win and we can go back to more interesting topics.
I will say that unfortunately most the residents of your state do not see how they are using them. I actually believed that Al Gore was not Bill Clinton and I could live through it if he won. Now I know that he is far worse than Clinton.
I also agree with you on which operating system is best.
Keep up the Good Work.
Thanks.
Regards,
Yes, we have deployed FixPak 14, on all our OS/2 systems, and it is working flawlessly. We suffered no problems with our C or JAVA compilers, no problems with our DB2/2 clients or servers, and no problems with our Domino v5 web server. FixPak 14 is highly recommended. I suggest, too, from experience, that the FixPak be installed from the OS/2 command line, using the new option FPINST WARP4. It works like a charm.
It is helpful to note, that prior to OS/2, our election systems were cumbersome and costly, requiring an MVS mainframe, TAPE processing, and CICS support. OS/2 was then, and is now, the perfect environment for this process. We in Miami-Dade county are proud of our accomplishments, and we stand by our efforts, 100 percent.
Thanks for a wonderful magazine, and good luck in the future.
Question: I have another product (a faster confuser) but it came with Windoze 98. So I installed using dual boot Mandrake Linux. Is it possible to take the stock version of Warp 3 and network it to Linux? If possible, are there any other capabilities I will need to download? I realize that Warp Connect is no longer available so I would still like to connect them.
Thank you for taking the time to look into this request.
Good luck on your Presidential elections. Coups are never good.
The problem is that the current board is living off the carcass of strategic decisions past: decisions to compete in every business sector in which IBM is active, from mainframes to services, were taken long before Mr. Gerstner took charge. Since then the board has remained firmly rooted and has failed to move strategically to compete as new IT marketplaces have emerged, especially in client/server.
Still, its not all bad news. Whereas dismay might describe the emotions of stockholders, customers and many IBM employees, the business schools must be in their seventh heaven! Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined such a quality stream of case study material emerging from a company like IBM - indeed, it would not be surprising if one of them were to offer Mr. Gerstner an honorary degree.
I have this vision of Snow White standing in the doorway of her cottage, waving good-bye in the morning to the Seven Dwarves carrying their picks and shovels: leaving in the other direction ...this little piggy went to market... At the end of the day, seven weary dwarves return from their toils whilst from the other direction comes the farmer carrying a bag of gold. As the days go by, more and more weary dwarves come home each evening and the farmer's bag of gold gets smaller and smaller.
Part of the answer has to be to put the PC folk, the OS/2 folk, the DOS folk and the Lotus folk together, with a mission to acquire for IBM a respectable share of the client server marketplace, with its potential to yield higher (software driven) margins: a comparison of Microsoft's and IBM's gross revenues clearly demonstrates the upside potential. As Sun lock down the web server market, Cisco corner web connectivity, Microsoft dominate client/server and EMC continue to bite into mainframe DASD, unless IBM starts to fight back, it will be left to operate a lower growth and lower margin business.
Whatever happens, with hindsight one thing is certain: the last time this pattern emerged, the then board waited far loo long before taking action.
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