A very high price to the user for the elimination of competition

Lynn Wheeler writing yesterday in the ibm-main forum under the topic
"25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM" made reference to a
z/Journal article from Feb/Mar 2006 by Barry Graham of Arcati
(ex Xephon) http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=article&aid=346

In this article Barry said:

"The net result of the slowdown that has occurred since the ’90s, when
IBM first began to limit and ultimately eradicated all mainframe
processor competition, is that the price per MIPS today is
approximately six times higher than the $165 per MIPS that the
traditional technology/price decline link would have produced. As a
result, the largest systems today cost closer to $18 million than the
$3 million they have cost throughout most of the mainframe’s history—a
very high price to the user for the elimination of competition."

I believe that Hercules is positioned to be the catalyst for restoring
competition in the mainframe market. I think IBM recognize this too.

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Regards,
Roger Bowler
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler
Hercules "the people's mainframe"