As some have put forward, SCSI's still got an edge on things on the high-end. Only things that could put a real crimp in SCSI are Fibre Channel and IEEE-1355.
For those who don't know what IEEE-1355 is, it's a high-speed switched networking system that is derived from the Transputer's parallel processing link system. Baseline spec is capable of ~300Mbps with the high end being in the 1-3Gbps range. The parts cost for the basline adapter is about the cost of an RS-232 port, and the switches are on a par with the USB hub in complexity and cost.
The snag? These devices are still in their infancy- there's not a lot of the low end stuff out there and the high-end units are engineering prototypes that were built to make high performance clustering possible.
Seems to me that this is more the last gasp from the CRT technology. In a year or two's time, we should be seeing field emitter display (FED) and light emitting plastic (LEP) come out- these technologies look to change the landscape dramatically. LEP displays should be cheap and easy to make. FED displays are on a par with CRTs in complexity, consume less power and look as good if not better than CRTs. CRTs aren't dead- yet. They look to be on their way out though.
A monopoly does not have to have barriers to entry to exist. A monopoly, however has to have most, if not all of some segment of a market. A monopoly can naturally exist- and in the eyes of the law, it's fine to have one, so long as you don't use the position to maintain itself or to establish other monopolies in other market segments. On the desktop, you have to admit, they have something like 80-99% of the market (or so they say)- this constitutes a monopoly over the desktop operating systems market. They used this position to wedge their way into the server, applications, and internet market segments- and that is what the DOJ trial is all about.
Well... Maybe they are going to work on it.
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According to an interview that Linux Today is covering, SGI's aware of a desire to see Linux running on their to be released hot hardware (Seems like at every turn they're asked if it'll support Linux- from potential end-users and the pundits.) and they're going to formulate their answer with regards to Linux shortly.
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It's modeled after CodeWarrior and uses the compiler of your choice.
As some have put forward, SCSI's still got an edge on things on the high-end. Only things that could put a real crimp in SCSI are Fibre Channel and IEEE-1355.
For those who don't know what IEEE-1355 is, it's a high-speed switched networking system that is derived from the Transputer's parallel processing link system. Baseline spec is capable of ~300Mbps with the high end being in the 1-3Gbps range. The parts cost for the basline adapter is about the cost of an RS-232 port, and the switches are on a par with the USB hub in complexity and cost.
The snag? These devices are still in their infancy- there's not a lot of the low end stuff out there and the high-end units are engineering prototypes that were built to make high performance clustering possible.
Seems to me that this is more the last gasp from the CRT technology. In a year or two's time, we should be seeing field emitter display (FED) and light emitting plastic (LEP) come out- these technologies look to change the landscape dramatically. LEP displays should be cheap and easy to make. FED displays are on a par with CRTs in complexity, consume less power and look as good if not better than CRTs. CRTs aren't dead- yet. They look to be on their way out though.
It's more like the "Wookie" defense, and that won't work with that argument.
A monopoly does not have to have barriers to entry to exist. A monopoly, however has to have most, if not all of some segment of a market. A monopoly can naturally exist- and in the eyes of the law, it's fine to have one, so long as you don't use the position to maintain itself or to establish other monopolies in other market segments. On the desktop, you have to admit, they have something like 80-99% of the market (or so they say)- this constitutes a monopoly over the desktop operating systems market. They used this position to wedge their way into the server, applications, and internet market segments- and that is what the DOJ trial is all about.
According to an interview that Linux Today is covering, SGI's aware of a desire to see Linux running on their to be released hot hardware (Seems like at every turn they're asked if it'll support Linux- from potential end-users and the pundits.) and they're going to formulate their answer with regards to Linux shortly.