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In article <1989Nov25.200320.21142@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Either IBM comes up with something brilliant to buoy their mainframe
>market (something I wouldn't discount as a possibility) or expect a
>rapid decline over the next 5 or so years as people realize they can
>"down-size" effectively ("down-sizing" is a term used in the MIS/DP
>market for replacing mainframe facilities with smaller machines, if
>you read that press you'd be shocked how many blue-serge suits are
>standing up and making testimonials about how they're decommissioning,
>or planning to in the near future, their mainframes and moving to a
>PC/LAN network with maybe a mini, typically AS/400 or Vax, at the
>hub.) There are areas where down-sizing doesn't cut it, but there are
>a *lot* of areas where it does, and that's skimming the cream out of
>the market.
>

The opposite is also happening. Many large corporations are consolidating
their data processing into larger centers.  Shutting down several
regional processing centers in favor of one large national center.

Partitioning large mainframes has also become very arrtactive to some
corporations.  One big machine is logically partitioned into
several smaller machines.  Software and maintainance costs are lower
for one large machine than for a half dozen small machines.

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