[arthev]

I have read some similar article(s), I think.

Pricing models don’t necessarily rely on the underlying technology, IMO. (Consider the ol’ paid-for vs vendor-bundled browsers.)

I’m not sure whether reliability makes for different categories either: different OSes have different focus on reliability, but are all OSes, after all. Definitely makes for different use-cases, though!

I also wonder whether the integrated coding environment and staging aspect primarily reflects general developments in coding workflow. That is, whether they are an incidental or intrinsic difference. It would probably have been much easier to make up my mind on that if I had any mainframe experience.

Categorization depends on how you draw the lines, and I definitely have a bias towards assuming hyped-up stuff is probably less interesting or new than the hype makes it out to be. Though, I haven’t made up my mind whether to consider mainframes and ‘the cloud’ different instances of the same thing.

Thanks for the reply, interesting stuff!