“No one ever got fired for buying IBM,” was the adage of enterprise IT decision-makers in the 1990s. Banking on the IT giant was the safest bet you could make, and if a new IT product came to market that was outside of IBM’s portfolio, administrators would simply wait for IBM to develop it…in IBM we trust. Then the “four horsemen” of IT emerged in the form of Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco, which roamed from company to company, dominating everything IT…
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