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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

2408.0. "IBM-Digital in the news" by CARMEL::GOETZE (Sublease the dominant paradigm) Wed Mar 10 1993 12:16

From today's San Jose Mercury News Business Section, in an article 
on the search for a new CEO for IBM:

" * IBM board members have discussed the idea of merging with another
corporate powerhouse such as Apple Computer Inc., General Electric Co.
or Digital Equipment Corp."

Feel free to move to the *-Digital merger note.

	erik
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2408.1SA1794::CHARBONNDself is in mutinyThu Mar 11 1993 13:561
    IBM-DEC merger impossible due to anti-trust laws. 
2408.2In your dreams, FleischmanVIA::LILCBR::COHENThu Mar 11 1993 17:0512
Oh yeah, great.  As if one beached whale wasn't enough.

Although the bureaucracy created from such a merger would
certainly be quite .... "creative".

I suppose a merger of that kind would qualify under the
non-competitive clause of the anti-trust laws except 
this would be the first time the clause was applied to
the two merging companies!!!

	Bob Cohen
2408.3having problems with the language...MU::PORTERsavage pencilThu Mar 11 1993 21:403
    Can't a merger only cause "anti-trust" if we're trusted 
    before the merger?
    
2408.4STAR::BECKPaul BeckThu Mar 11 1993 21:471
    If the government cried anti-trust, we'd have to cry uncle...
2408.5Anti-trust in the Computer Industry!, Still laghing over that oneKEIKI::WHITEWe have Top Men working on it,Top MenFri Mar 12 1993 02:3313
    
    	Actually the real mergers are -
    
    	IBM & APPLE
    
    	DIGITAL & Microsoft
    
    	SUN & Novelle
    
    	HP & AT&T
    
    	   It would take the government 10 years to sort this out or so
    the theory goes.	
2408.6non-compete, how approposBOOKS::HAMILTONAll models are false; some are useful - Dr. G. BoxFri Mar 12 1993 11:397
    
    re: .2
    
    Non compete wouldn't be a problem, since the behemoth couldn't
    compete!  :-)
    
    Glenn