[Info-vax] The Machine - Dows Jones newswire report

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2016 10:13 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
> HP, IBM, Sun were all guilty of not recognizing that Customers were
> under such extreme pressures to reduce IT costs that they decided to
> move to commodity OS's/HW - NOT because the target platform was
> technically better, but rather deemed to be "good enough" and saved
> them some pretty big $'s.

Good enough and reduce cost can also be called "business wise better".

> In the next 10 years, the same thing is going to repeat itself - only
> with the software OS's and applications. Remember the old saying
> about Oracle - 80% of the Customers only use about 20% of all of the
> available features.
>
> The Oracle, SAP's of the world are in for a big shock when there is a
> massive shift to SW solutions that cost much less, but are deemed to
> be "good enough".

That trend has already existed for many years.

Linux has almost killed the commercial Unixes.

MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc. have been
eating marketshares from Oracle, DB2, SQLServer etc..

JBoss and Tomcat have been eating marketshares from
WebSphere and WebLogic.

It will continue.

Arne