Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology - Charles H. Ferguson - P... Book

Mr. Ferguson chronicles IBMs failure to respond to the changing computing market place and captures its fall from preeminence. This book is hugely significant to me in my current industry, telecommunications. IBM's ironic efforts to protect their monopoly dominance of the computing market with techniques that were ultimately responsible for the company's fall from preeminence are being repeated by today's broaband providers. IBM attempted to retain an archaic and inflexible model wherein the hardware and software were inextricably tied to one another. Today's broadband providers are attempting to force the Internet into a model where services are inextricably tied to the physical infrastructure owned by the provider. This model stymies innovation and undermines market forces

Fortunately, there is another way. My company, OHIvey, is engaged in helping communities deploy open service provider fiber to the premise. We teach communities how to have truly competition across true broadband.