> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
>
> 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...
"Good enough" is.
So it was with VHS over BETA, TCPIP over SNA, Windows over OS/2, (E)ISA
over MicroChannel....
Who's your "favorite" between HD-DVD and Blue-Ray?
-jc-
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