dditional workforce cuts have been announced, with the company expecting to employ 255,000 at the end of 1993, and 225,000 at the end of 1994 (Vohra, 1993, p. 1210).
In the microcomputer market, the same dominance of architecture that makes IBM strong also prohibits it from successfully introducing proprietary platforms. The DOS-based machines now share market domination with Apple. IBM has introduced newer technology in the form of the PS/2 machines which use the OS/2 operating system, but the acceptance of these new machines has been limited. Companies are not willing to invest in these machines which use a proprietary operating system, which are often priced much higher than similar DOS-based IBM-compatible machines, and which have a limited amount of software associated with them. When IBM entered the microcomputer market in the early 1980s, it was large enough to define the market. Having done so, it is now difficult for the company to create technology which takes i
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