Rodent Regatta

Apple & IBM

Why doesn’t some type of joint strategy between these two make some sense? NO – not like IBM swallowing Lotus and Lotus disappearing. What I have in mind leverages the obvious strengths to create a bona fide alternative to Wintel PC’s:
APPLE:

• great industrial design


• new-found Unix operating system in OSX


• small enough to do some entrepreneurial things


• cool-factor is high

IBM:

• financial strength


• new-found focus on Linux


• provides PowerPC chips to Apple now


• has the power to lead a Unix/Linux to the desktop initiative