RE: JAZ drives on servers for workgroups
Jon (and all),
You wrote:
>Tom, the need for CD-ROM drives on server has little
>to do with removability, and plenty to do with how
>the data arrives. e.g. on CD-roms, as well as cost.
My post (#24802) had to do with the internal logic
of your analogy (i.e., that the presence now of whole
banks of CD-ROMS on servers indicates that there will
be no JAZ drives on servers in the future). I wasn't
questioning the initial premise of your analogy (i.e.,
that JAZ removable storage on servers is analogous to
CD-ROMs on servers). That was YOUR analogy, not mine,
presented in post #24800 to Glenn MacLean. If you now
want to call that premise into question, fine with me.
I'm no expert on servers and workgroups. I'm just a
bit of a logic cop. It comes from seventeen years of
grading undergraduate essays. Sorry to be such a pain.
After so many years of grading, you can't help yourself
without expensive therapy. <grin>
Anyway, I think we're all agreed that this particular
application is a niche, not a "killer app." We're
debating just how big the niche is going to be.
Frankly, I don't care. Every little sale helps,
as does every little indicator of ubiquity. Surely
there are _some_ workgroups out there who want this
stuff. Who cares how small a market they are?
On the standardization-versus-ubiquity issue, by the
way, it's becoming increasingly clear that the objective
at Iomega is not ownership of the floppy slot. That
alone is small potatoes. The objective is ownership
of ALL REMOVABLE MAGNETIC MASS STORAGE
OF INFORMATION. Some of the wild bulls of spring
1996 saw this, I think, but most of them lost faith
when the momentum run fizzled bigtime.
Finally, where's Knutson with his "convergence" mantra?
Jack, we miss you! There are Zips and JAZzes popping
up all over cyberspace this week, and you're lying low.
You didn't take a spill on the slopes or anything,
did you? Then again, maybe Iomega has you out on
the slopes testing a new model of ski boot with
a built-in Zip drive. <grin> (Sorry, I'm feeling
puckish today. You can't blame me with all these
curious new Zip/JAZ niches showing up recently.)
Cheers, Tom (long IOM) |
