Companies that supply their staff with the best possible tools, recognizing the diversity of their people and skills, and driven by young and energetic second generation computer professionals will start to out maneuver the companies that are mode-locked into mediocrity with Microsoft. Some of the largest and inflexible companies, however, will be unable to admit their mistakes, unable to change, and unable to extricate themselves from the Microsoft commitment. Like the typewriter companies or the starving cells in the Conway game of Life, options restricted, they will struggle to avoid extinction. Watch and learn. Remington Rand, Smith Corona, Royal, and Underwood are either out of business, out of the typewriter business or on the ropes.
Brother limps on.
Only IBM and Olivetti made the transition from typing machines to personal computers. Copyright 1998, John Martellaro. All rights reserved. He lives at 9,100 feet ASL in Colorado with a Ph.D. wife and two cats. The elevation may explain his occasional delusional writing.