Tim,
Please expound and elucidate, oh wise and wonderful sage G
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Great Platform Shakeout of the Naughts
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Re: Great Platform Shakeout of the Naughts, I'm referring primarily to
the struggles Sun and HP have had and are having, but you could include
other examples, such as Silicon Graphics, which stopped producing its
MIPS-based servers in 2006. The server market has ended up with two horses
in my
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/homegrown-solutions-the-good-and-the-bad-181268
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Once upon a time, when AS/400s roamed in vast herds and S/390s ruled the roost,
just about all of IT was homegrown. Vendors didn't have solutions -- they had
platforms, and you customized them to fit
Packaged applications -- or whatever other term you'd like to use -- have
been around and popular since at least the 1960s. Many/most portfolios of
mainframe-hosted applications have always blended purchased applications
and application components (purchased libraries and frameworks, as
examples)
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