(313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

[Richard Hester]

Sooner or later, I'll be putting my music computer setup back together. 
It's woefully out of date, and I'll need some sort of midi router to 
replace my 4 X 4 ISA card (ISA? What's that...). Anyway, one option 
would be to get an 8X rack mount router with USB interface, though these 
seem to be a bit thin on the ground as of late.What I have noticed is a 
lot of MIDI-to-USB dongles cropping up. Would a bunch of these operating 
into a USB hub be a proper substitute, given the proper software (if it 
exists)?