sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Power servers are a good example of a success. IBM is the leader in the > distributed UNIX server market and by quite a margin. Yet rewind the clock > a couple decades and *nobody* would have predicted that. IBM doggedly, > persistently focused on succeeding in that market. And IBM did it the old > fashioned way: with lots of long-term investments to develop and to build > better products than the competition.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers the server market is combined risc & cisc (mostly x86) chips. as mentioned the server market is brand name vendors and doesn't include the huge explosion in number of servers being built by the large cloud operators (claim is that the number of cloud servers is larger than the total brand name server market) ... and is the major growth market. news the last couple weeks is IBM is aggresively looking at moving into this high growth cloud market ... but it is meeting steep competition. this is really long-winded discussion on linkedit http://lnkd.in/mGd4j5 on "The Cloud is killing traditional hardware and software" http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-cloud-killing-traditional-hardware-and-software-216963 part of the issue is that cloud operators have claimed for some time they are building servers for 1/3rd the price of brand name servers. there are various rumors that some of the large server vendors have moved into "white box" assemblies for cloud operators (matching large cloud operators price) and selling to smaller private cloud operations (that aren't large enough to setup their own server build operations). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
