What would have been interesting if WANG had not made the
financial mistakes it did and the VS series machines had continued.
Would IBM have gotten rid of the bottom end of the
z/Architecture? Tier 2 zSeries partners were dump rather quickly.
What would have happened had the MP-3000 and equivalent been
allowed to continue? I forget the name of the competitor to the
MP-2/3000 machines.
So IBM is now disgorging VSE to 21St Century software.
What would have happened had Gerstner forced the renewal of TIDA
(Tech Info Disclosure Agreement) with Amdahl and the rest?
What I'm getting at is IBM was healthy when it had competition
relative to z/Arch.
While I'm at it, suppose that IBM management had been successful
in dumping VM? How would they do cloud?
Just wondering....
Steve Thompson
On 2/28/2023 4:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:15:25 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibms-fall-from-world-dominance
Not negative overall, just recognizing that things have changed, for the
most part.
Thanks. Interesting.
But it speaks of mainframes, much like tabulating machines, as in the past
tense.
"The Cloud is just someone else's computer." IBM is striving to be that
"someone
else", with a well-defined market target, fitting its culture. But what
hardware
(and OS) will/do they use?
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