Computer Wars:: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology

by Charles Ferguson

Book Overview

Now in paperback, the book THE WALL STREET JOURNAL called "required reading for anyone itching to know what happened at Big Blue." A behind-the-scenes look at the dramtic fall of IBM. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812923006
• ISBN13: 9780812923001
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The single best book for understanding the computer industry

Computer Wars remains the single best book for understanding the computer industry, both software and hardware. When people outside the industry ask why both Netscape and Microsoft have decided to lose a barrel of money by developing WWW browsers and giving them away, give them a copy of this book.

A great book

This is a book book, if you like the subject. The first 1/3 tells the story of the collapse of IBM, and the rest of the book goes into the buissness aspects of what went wrong and what to do in the future. Great if you like either buissness or computers in general.

How the war was lost

This book was in interesting book that went into the details. It clearly explaines the details of how IBM lost the war with the best technology in the world.

Great job of putting the computer industry in perspective.

This book details how the modern computer industry came into being. Who the players were, how they fought for domiance, who won, who lost, and why. The authors cleary delineate the pivotal points that shape today's competitive landscape. For instance when Intel and Microsoft stole the day from IBM.For anyone even casually interested in the computer industry, this is a fasinating and easy read