On 01/23/2012 04:19 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > the world is a better place when each level has internal competition > based on useful, open (free), multi-implementation standards.
Markets always go through these full on vertical integration phases (for a while) before the assets are sold off (either voluntarily or via bankruptcy court). Its a natural part of the business cycle. Cisco is building servers now. Oracle, the whole stack. Pretty soon, some whipper snapper of a company is going to come along and eat their lunches, and then they will get competitive pressure to change. This said, many *many* large university sites like dealing with "a single vendor" (that is until they get eventually screwed over by that one vendor, or realize that the "great deal" they are getting really isn't as great as it sounded ... ). Which is part of the reason its so hard getting into accounts other vendors have locked up. Sadly, lots of this works around the spirit (and probably skating very close to the edge of the letter) of the law surrounding most public acquisition processes, but thats life I guess. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
