In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/04/2008
at 08:43 AM, Clark F Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>>One day the mainframe world will wake up to the fact that they have a
>>>choice. There WAS a time when mainframe hardware was the only game in town
>>>and vendors (both hardware and software) could charge anything they liked.
That's like saying that since the car is the online game in town, ford
doesn't have to worry about competition from Toyota. There were multiple
mainframe vendors, and there was fierce competition among them.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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