The only concrete point in your rant seems to be this: > So saying that they „ignored the PC” implies that they ignored themselves, which doesn’t make sense.

The only concrete point in your rant seems to be this: > So saying that they „ignored the PC” implies that they ignored themselves, which doesn’t make sense. This makes perfect sense to anyone who has seen a large lumbering schizophrenic beast like IBM. It's commonplace for one division to despise, ignore and undermine another.