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March 21st 2008 03:08
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Was Microsoft a monopoly from the start
In the beginning of computers, IBM quietly layed off about 10,000 highly trained systems people. They did it quietly so the general public would not get nervous about the coming computer revolution. Workers in general were afraid computers were going to take over their jobs. The layed off IBM personnel were trained in IBM systems and the corporate world quickly staffed their data processing centers with these workers and the IBM way quickly took over the industry this way. It must be noted that only corporate schools were able to train high tech workers. Universities did not have the skills yet to do it.
IBM had hardly any competition. Honeywell, Univac, General Electric and NCR only had a small share of the market. Control Data was about the only one left who seemed to have enough left to compete with IBM but they fell by the wayside too. Going into the 1980s, IBM was faced with many anti-trust actions while they tried to maintain their hold on the comptuer industry centered on centralized mainframe processing. The mini-computers were on the offensive and taking part of the market. There were many and they sold bundled systems. IBM systems were unbundled and IBM was successful doing it this way. The micro computer manufacturers became active too but they lacked a universal approach. For the most part each had their own operating system and the market was divided accordingly.
IBM held off making a micro computer to protect their mainframe business. Industry sources reported they just wanted to bring out a personal computer to add to the confusion.
For the first time in their history they went outside their own manufacturing processes to get the components for the new PC computer never expecting what would later happen. Apparently all the anti-trust actions played a part in IBM going outside the corporation for the parts. They also went outside for the operating system which turned out to be DOS by Bill Gates.
To IBM's surprise their branding of a personal computer automatically made it a universal standard. Bill Gates and Microsoft were born a monopoly being gifted the standard. However, IBM's hardware was not exclusive and they introduced the IBM compatible system that all in the world could copy and manufacture. Bill Gates did not have to do this and kept the DOS operating system as his exclusive product. In essence the USA gave the micro computer technology to the world for free except for the DOS operating system owned by Bill Gates.
The value of this technology could have added up to many Marshall Plans , if the USA found a way for IBM to keep the technology in house. The human sacrifices came quickly.
All other personal computers with their unique operating systems faded away. Hundreds of computer companies closed down including the last mainframe, mini computers and micro computer competitors. In the end millions of workers in the computer industry lost their jobs as the PC compatibles were produced by impoverished workers across the globe. There was no way of competing within this global production setting. The US government sat on the side lines and even seem to foster the vast lost of value computers once represented. IBM powerful brand name caused this revolution with Microsoft reaping the rewards - they enjoyed the largest freebie in history of business and commerce.
Going into the 1990s, IBM was forced to cut 150,000 workers and AT&T / NCR cut another 150,000 .
Now we have to ask if the USA and the world was better off before the computer revolution than we are now. The answer must be yes! A new working poor class has since been created in the USA and a vast impoverished working class abroad. The American workers have been dislocated, devalued and "commoditized" being put on a global economic block to compete with workers making as little as 20 cents an hour. Microsoft was born a monopoly with havoc following their vast growth. Bill Gates from the beginning cut regular workers and used contract workers. Now he wants to bring in migrant high tech workers into the USA.
As the story unfolds, the world is far from ready for a centralized system called Globalism. The internet demonstrates this fact - when you try to gather everything into one place, you gather both the good and the bad together, The bad that was once decentralized and controllable is now exploding across the globe. Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable. Today they an epidemic in size. Local value added economies are being destroyed and nations find they must protect their interests on global scale. Global elite groupings try to control the process without ever touching a tool.
The best economic models now are in a Back to the Future mode. Sooner or later someone will start harvesting the best of the local value economies we once knew from 1945 to 1980.
By Ray Tapajna - Explore the lost worlds in the globalist free trader flat world at Tapart News and Art that Talks
IBM had hardly any competition. Honeywell, Univac, General Electric and NCR only had a small share of the market. Control Data was about the only one left who seemed to have enough left to compete with IBM but they fell by the wayside too. Going into the 1980s, IBM was faced with many anti-trust actions while they tried to maintain their hold on the comptuer industry centered on centralized mainframe processing. The mini-computers were on the offensive and taking part of the market. There were many and they sold bundled systems. IBM systems were unbundled and IBM was successful doing it this way. The micro computer manufacturers became active too but they lacked a universal approach. For the most part each had their own operating system and the market was divided accordingly.
IBM held off making a micro computer to protect their mainframe business. Industry sources reported they just wanted to bring out a personal computer to add to the confusion.
For the first time in their history they went outside their own manufacturing processes to get the components for the new PC computer never expecting what would later happen. Apparently all the anti-trust actions played a part in IBM going outside the corporation for the parts. They also went outside for the operating system which turned out to be DOS by Bill Gates.
To IBM's surprise their branding of a personal computer automatically made it a universal standard. Bill Gates and Microsoft were born a monopoly being gifted the standard. However, IBM's hardware was not exclusive and they introduced the IBM compatible system that all in the world could copy and manufacture. Bill Gates did not have to do this and kept the DOS operating system as his exclusive product. In essence the USA gave the micro computer technology to the world for free except for the DOS operating system owned by Bill Gates.
The value of this technology could have added up to many Marshall Plans , if the USA found a way for IBM to keep the technology in house. The human sacrifices came quickly.
All other personal computers with their unique operating systems faded away. Hundreds of computer companies closed down including the last mainframe, mini computers and micro computer competitors. In the end millions of workers in the computer industry lost their jobs as the PC compatibles were produced by impoverished workers across the globe. There was no way of competing within this global production setting. The US government sat on the side lines and even seem to foster the vast lost of value computers once represented. IBM powerful brand name caused this revolution with Microsoft reaping the rewards - they enjoyed the largest freebie in history of business and commerce.
Going into the 1990s, IBM was forced to cut 150,000 workers and AT&T / NCR cut another 150,000 .
Now we have to ask if the USA and the world was better off before the computer revolution than we are now. The answer must be yes! A new working poor class has since been created in the USA and a vast impoverished working class abroad. The American workers have been dislocated, devalued and "commoditized" being put on a global economic block to compete with workers making as little as 20 cents an hour. Microsoft was born a monopoly with havoc following their vast growth. Bill Gates from the beginning cut regular workers and used contract workers. Now he wants to bring in migrant high tech workers into the USA.
As the story unfolds, the world is far from ready for a centralized system called Globalism. The internet demonstrates this fact - when you try to gather everything into one place, you gather both the good and the bad together, The bad that was once decentralized and controllable is now exploding across the globe. Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable. Today they an epidemic in size. Local value added economies are being destroyed and nations find they must protect their interests on global scale. Global elite groupings try to control the process without ever touching a tool.
The best economic models now are in a Back to the Future mode. Sooner or later someone will start harvesting the best of the local value economies we once knew from 1945 to 1980.
By Ray Tapajna - Explore the lost worlds in the globalist free trader flat world at Tapart News and Art that Talks
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