Re: database market share 2003

> > and because of government regulation over the
> > years of IBM as a monopoly,
>
> which stopped about 15 years ago, but the "folks"
> keep invoking it as if it was magically still in effect...
>

Where did you get that information? Not true, it is still in effect for mainframe stuff. Companies have been able to buy absolutely plug compatible mainframe hardware for many years.

> > there is plug compatible competition at
> > virtually every level (even mainframe hardware).
>
> No there isn't. If there has been a change in IT
> in the last 5 years it is PRECISELY the absence
> of any serious competition to IBM hardware anywhere
> other than in Unix. One of the "little" results of
> Reaganomics.
>

If the plug compatible hardware vendors have stopped competing, it is because IBM lowered their prices so much to compete with UNIX and Windows platforms. IBM is still required to provide mainframe microcode to the competitors if they want to make plug compatible hardware.

> As for software, it's impossible to compete with a
> company that claims to "run" everything everywhere...
> --

You must be talking about Oracle. Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 06:46:20 CDT