On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Michael Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > To bring this back to the original point about IBM - it's useful to > remember that IBM also turns out some really good 1U servers - I just > sold one last month.
The IBM defense makes a lot of sense now. Just saying. Yes, they make some good 1U servers, but so does Dell. Disclosure: I have worked for Dell in the past, and have had my hands on more Dell servers professionally than any other manufacturer's gear. Unless I am a complete blathering idiot, I don't consider a 1U server a mainframe by any regard. They sell to all markets and people have their > reasons for buying the things that they buy. To say that IBM "doesn't > get it"- which is what kicked off the thread- is wrong. Wrong for values of right :-) If you trace back why IBM was 10% higher in sales in Q3, I'll bet it's largely due to the health care industry. As Critch pointed out, they are expensive and the workforce behind them are older. If IBM were really serious about a long term mainframe mainstay then they would be back off of the Hercules project. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibm-breaks-taboo-and-betrays-its.html This is why IBM doesn't get it. You can't maintain for a long period of time an expensive product line and kick the ladder away from anyone-- especially young-- wanting to learn their tech. This didn't matter so much back in the heyday of mainframes, but open source and free software did change the world. I am completely unaware of any way for that is legally safe for a hobbyist to independently learn how to run a mainframe short of working for a fortune 500 or large health care company. Who's to say that IBM won't assert other patents against other software projects including Linux in the future. Yes I am aware that IBM has invested billions into Linux-- thank you IBM. However, they do **appear** to suffer from the large corporate giant syndrome where one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. Andrew > > Michael > -- > Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. > [email protected] > http://www.michaelchaney.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
