Agreed. There are statistics and damn statistics. Numbers can be made to say anything these days.
Alternatives *are in the process of maturing*. They certainly are not there yet! I am amazed at the failure tolerance of distributed application systems. If it is broke, they spend more money on it without getting to the root cause: bad architectural design. The mainframe systems have never been given this kind of leeway. I'd better stop now before I get my blood pressure up. <grin> --------------------------------------------------------- Robert B. Richards (Bob) US Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street NW Room: BH04L Washington, D.C. 20415 Phone: (202) 606-1195 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: We're losing the battle On 22 Jun 2008 04:35:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards, Robert B.) wrote: >I wouldn't say we are necessarily losing the battle. It all depends on how such things are measured. Our dominance isn't as pervasive as it once was, as alternatives have matured. Is that losing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
