After Two Decades IBM Push Microsoft

International Business Machines or IBM could eventually exceed its historical rival, Microsoft Corp., the market value for the first time since April 1996.
IBM's success also marked the failure of Microsoft to convince investors that the company owned by Bill Gates was still able to dominate the world of future technology as it has done in the past.
As a comparison, an investor who 10 years ago to plant each $ 100,000 in two companies, now will find its share of IBM worth 143,000 dollars while at Microsoft is only worth 69,000 dollars.
In the United States alone Microsoft is now only ranked third in terms of market value while Apple still occupy the first place.
Historically IBM once ruled the world computer industry for decades until one day he rented a small company called Microsoft to make the operating system in the 1980s.
The momentum that is then used by Bill Gates to achieve world domination of technology and prove his theory that the software is more valuable than the hardware. Consequently at the end of 1999, the market value Microsof worth three times lipar than IBM's.
Throughout the era of the rise of Microsoft, IBM began to decline and abandoned because it was considered ancient. But with the internet technology bubble, wheel of fortune seems to have spun.
Despite increased sales more than doubled in the last ten years, Microsoft stock actually jammed so ignited criticism of Steve Ballmers who has served as CEO of Microsoft for 11 years.
Despite still master the operating system market, Microsoft has beaten Google in the Internet advertising market, while Apple's defeat in the field of smart cell phones and tablet computers.
Meanwhile, IBM continues to update itself by specializing in business software, servers, and consultants, while business in the computer field has been thrown away since 2002.
According to Reuters data, Apple is now estimated at 309.2 billion dollars, an IBM with a value of 203.8 billion dollars, while Microsoft with 203.7 dollars. (Ber)