''An idiomatic nickname for InternationalBusinessMachines.''
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Anyone seen reports of companies replacing (not supplementing) BigBlue setup with Java, Microsoft or another setup in order to reduce development and operation costs for computing?

Is it still a PipeDream? Have there been credible studies taken to assess cost effectiveness of such undertakings?

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'''Online Resources regarding BigBlue'''

Anyone know of good online forums for developers? Looking for one that preferably is not vendor managed.

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'''BigBlue vs MicrosoftCorporation'''

Back in the days when BigBlue was the number 1 company, it helped MicrosoftCorporation get started with MSDOS on its IBMPC. Around 1990 the two companies started to go separate ways when MS launched its WindowsOperatingSystems v3. The rest is history.

	 :	Never quite understood that phrase - "The rest is history".  It seems to me that it's ''all'' history ...

	 :	''Use the phrase when giving oral history, as "the rest is (written) history"...'' -- JerryAndrews

''Now in mid 2004, there are news that BigBlue is helping to provide a technical solution to lessen MicrosoftCorporation stranglehold on desktops. See Financial Times article at http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180368074''

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I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "Noone ever got fired for buying Blue".  Never fails to evoke a sigh of despair from me.

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