{"id":9328,"date":"2011-05-17T07:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T07:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ibm_to_eclipse_microsoft_market_cap.html"},"modified":"2011-05-17T07:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T07:12:31","slug":"ibm-to-eclipse-microsoft-market-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ibm-to-eclipse-microsoft-market-cap.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM to Eclipse Microsoft Market Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch. The PC revolution took all the power away from the hardware leader IBM only to give it to the software company making operating systems &#8211; Microsoft. For decades, Microsoft used it&#8217;s OS dominance to help subsidize and sell myriad software products causing the company to grow like a weed. <\/p>\n<p>But Redmond needs a new growth engine and it looks like PCs and servers just aren&#8217;t going to continue their massive growth curve &#8211; especially when you consider how well iPads are selling.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, IBM brilliantly transitioned from a PC company to services where they are doing very, very well.<\/p>\n<p>This is why as Matt Rosoff at Business Insider <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/look-whos-about-to-pass-microsoft-in-market-cap-2011-5?utm_source=Triggermail&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=SAI%20Select&#038;utm_campaign=SAI_Select_051711\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> the reason IBM is about to pass Microsoft in market cap.<\/p>\n<p>He infers this is the reason for the Skype acquisition by Microsoft but really, the company needs a solid mobile advantage and a way to get it&#8217;s voice and unified communications strategy to be successful and the Skype deal kills these birds as well as adding a social and consumer electronics elements to the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch. The PC revolution took all the power away from the hardware leader IBM only to give it to the software company making operating systems &#8211; Microsoft. For decades, Microsoft used it&#8217;s OS dominance to help subsidize and sell myriad software products causing the company to grow like a weed. But Redmond needs a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,199,188,164,189,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}