IBMs of the 21st century, doomed to be elbowed aside by a mob of networking Microsofts?

ECONOMIST: Snatching BT��s bride

Jean Calvignac, an IBM fellow with IBMs Networking Hardware Division at Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, N.

FORBES: Chips that change their spots

The challenge will be when the IBMs, the HPs, and the Suns start to come in to dominate the market.

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Since then, the IBMs of the world have struggled to force customers to buy all their IT components from one supplier.

FORBES: Will SimpliVity Gut EMC?

No more racks full of stuff displaying the logo plates of the Ciscos, Dells, EMCs, HPs and IBMs of the world.

FORBES: Hackers at the Big Iron Gates

This is still largely missing around the world, and no other country has more potential than the United States to create the IBMs, Microsofts, Amazons, Apples, Googles, and Facebooks of the future.

FORBES: Create Jobs With Innovation, In-Shoring, Education

Trade wars force American companies that are winners in the global economy--the IBMs, FedExes and Citigroups--to give up some of their winnings so that struggling domestic tool and textile manufacturers can stay in business.

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No Microsofts, IBMs or Wal-Marts grace his portfolio.

FORBES: About Charles "Chuck" Royce

The companies that do the most business in Europe are the iconic big name brands, the Coca Colas, IBMs and McDonalds of the world, and problems in Europe must be reflected in their sales.

BBC: Europe: The monster under the bed?

The notion that the creation of paper is what would make us rich or boost the economy is the stuff of youthful fantasy, but for adults who believe that the Fed can create more Intels and IBMs through excessive purchase of Treasuries and mortgage securities, Monetarism presently seeks converts.

FORBES: Monetarism and Keynesianism: Identical Sides of the Same Adolescent Coin