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1) Token Ring is much more efficient on an internal network and the larger the network, the more efficient it is over Ethernet. However, it does have a couple of problems. First, it doesn't talk to the outside world nicely. You can bridge, but it's not as transparent and introduces another potentlal failure point. Second, like many of IBM's offerings, it requires a lot more expertise to configure and manage. In an age when people are expensive, if you don't develop you own folks, I can see not wanting to buy the competence necessary to run a Token Ring network. The same is true of DB2 - it blows the socks off any other database out there but it runs like a pig if the Admin isn't a genius. SQL and Oracle are cheaper to administer and 'good enough for government work'.


2) If your company rubberstamped IBM marketing, you had a much bigger problme than Token Ring.

3) What gives you the delusion that other vendors are any different?

This business goes through cycles of centralization and decentralization. There is a place for each, as long as we don't try to force one approach as being the only valid way. Mainframe is overkill for web browsing and email, but nothing can touch it for truly large scale business applications.

When people call the mainframe a dinosaur, it is worth remembering that homo sapiens has only been around about 150,000 years. Dinosaurs were around about 1000 times longer - 150,000,000 years.

Posted by: steeleweed@...   Posted on: 08/25/08  (Edited: 08/25/2008 @ 05:28) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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