[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Nomen Nescio]

m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:

> In article <iur689-ab1.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> > 
> > But in neither case did I have a crystal ball handy, and even if I had, I 
> > probably wouldn't have believed it.
> 
> Surely the mainframe survival was a bit of a surprise,

Why? Mainframes have been around before there was a Linux and they have a
niche that neither UNIX nor anything else has ever been able to penetrate.

> but the success of Unix[oids] was quite predictable. 

Yeah cheap stuff will win in this bad economy. If it ever turns around,
you're going to see some new things.