Re: NY Times Reports "Little Blue "- IBM to Offer Smaller Version Of Its Mainframe Computer -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: NY Times Reports "Little Blue "- IBM to Offer Smaller Version Of Its Mainframe Computer
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:11:36 -0500
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I am curious: as we move towards more and more solid state stuff, willmoving parts, like disc drives, go the way of the Lear 8-track?


In other words, is IBM moving away from a box, to a brick?


DKM wrote:

I tend to agree, IBM is moving to having a 'universal' box to run any and 
everything.
"Thompson, Glenn" <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I believe the ultimate strategy from IBM is to be able to sell 1 box and
run whatever you want on it.

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