Mainframes Kicking Butt; But Whither Cloud?
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Some Fun With Numbers Reveals the Ambiguity of the IT World
One of the major IT stories today involves a technology that grew almost 70% year-on-year and practically doubled its market share.
The other involves something that a major research company thinks will only command about 5% of the market in 2015.
The first sounds like a clear-cut winner. The other sounds like something that is dying on the vine.
The first of these is the IBM mainframe; the other is Cloud Computing.
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