I think it also was due (in part at least) to the late 80's/early 90's Anything but IBM attitude, driven in part by the OS2/MCA debacle. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?) 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... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
