In a recent note, Howard Brazee said: > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:19:56 -0600 > > I suspect instead, it wants us to have huge, secure, database machines > that are fast and use up less energy than Windows farms - ... > > If we get to the stage where we don't care about the OS (just as Mac > users don't care about the CPU) - things will be easier for IBM. They > And Mac users were surprisingly receptive to a profound OS change midway between the two CPU changes.
> will control what's in the black (blue) box, and we concentrate more > and more on just the data. > Of course if that OS is Linux, the big shops can have their big iron and the garage developers and IBM employees their economical development platforms. But IBM's software margins would be curtailed to middleware and above, omitting OS. And would needed middleware be available to garage developers? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
