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IBM’s Microsoft Smackdown: This week in PR

Both IBM and Microsoft made major systems launch announcements this week.

It struck me forcefully this morning when writing my first entry for the Mainframe blog that I hadn’t seen anyone compare the success of the two efforts. Well, if that isn’t a job for RedMonk then i am a capuchin’s cousin.

It looks like IBM won the PR war hands down. As far as the tech press is concerned, a mainframe system called z9 evidently has all the momentum, while Vista is still looking for a raison d’etre. Who’d a thunk it?

The analysis is here. On the broader plains of the internet Vista wins a google fight, but from a top down, mainstream news-driven perspective IBM just pinned Microsoft to the mat.

I could have just posted the argument at monkchips, because I own the copyright to the work, but I wanted to send some traffic to this new group blog I am contributing to. Please go read it and tell me why I am right or wrong.

 

 

 

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This entry was written by jgovernor and posted on July 29, 2005 at 2:22 pm and filed under . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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  1. Andy
    Posted July 29, 2005 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    Umm, I think you may have mislinked “The Analysis is here,” either that or we can derive your analysis based on the membership of the friary.

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