On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:48:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm dealing _right now_ with network performance issues in a mixed-media >network and wondering _how on earth_ Ethernet managed to gain so much >market acceptance and prevail over Token-Ring. It certainly wasn't due >to technical superiority. (Far from it!) From what I can gather, it was >price, price, and ... oh yeah ... price... > The same reason people are moving away from the mainframe. Look at any mainframe shop and you'll see an explosive growth in computing power. The mainframes are staying about the same while *ix and Microslop gain.
Not trying to open the debate about TCO... The perception is that the mainframe is expensive. It's really unfortunate that IBM isn't pricing software aggressively to stop the hemorrhage. Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
