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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Falling Windows Market Share
Date: 25 Jun 2025 01:44:39 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:57:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

> High tech companies have always been a crap-shoot. IBM is a survivor,
> but it's trajectory, it's exposure, are not good. AMD is one of the most
> amazing companies, they're like the Flying Walendas. But generally
> speaking, high tech companies don't last.

IBM survives in spite of itself. They sold their fabs to Global foundries 
and that's been a rocky road. DB2 seems to be fading fast. I haven't heard 
anything about that sort of skunk works crew that was doing Java better 
than Sun.