Froberg, David C wrote:
I think another author who addressed very well the issue of "changes in the paradigm" is Clayton Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma in which he made a compelling case that paradigm shifts occur when new technologies become cheap enough to do a good enough job, become increasingly adopted and adapted, and the established interests wait to long to respond.
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...
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