In preparation of the 25th anniversary of the ‘Beige Box’, eWeek lists the 25 most influential products of the last 25 years (the list starts here). Number one is (naturally) the IBM PC.
I can find myself in most of the products: for example, I agree that Linux should be in the Top 10, but not listing either OS/2 or Windows 3.0 (both) in the top 25 is a miss. We all know how Microsoft became the big company after it severed its ties with IBM.
While Ashton-Tate played a remarkable role in the transformation of ‘uncategorized data’ to ‘logical’ filestructures, any of the early SQL (or rather relational databases) should have been listed too.
The ‘Intel i386’ processor is the only processor to make the 25-list, which does no honour to that other revolutionary chip, the Motorola 68000.