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IBM's Networking Blueprint: anchor point of SNA's revolution. (systems network architecture) (SNA Internetworking: A Framework for Action Supplement)
Business Communications Review, February, 1994 by Nolle, Tom
ANCHOR POINT OF SNA'S EVOLUTION Most IBM watches would agree that what has happened to IBM's stock during the past two years reflects how major corporations are changing their views about data processing. But what they can't seem to agree on is what happens next. Are mainframes doomed, or will they remain at the core of future information systems strategies? Is IBM's venerable Systems Network Architecture (SNA) an aging, opportunities proprietary ploy, or, reinvigorated with APPN and HPR, is SNA the best--perhaps the only--hope for achieving truly distributed computing? This uncertainty has had vendors impacts on both vendors and users.
The vendors have introduced a huge array of competing computing and networking technologies, and even...
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