{"id":71,"date":"2005-07-06T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2005-07-06T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T20:12:02","slug":"the_blade_blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"The blade bloodbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time it takes for a new, premium IT product to turn into a cheap commodity grows ever briefer. Latest exhibit: blade servers. The early movers, like IBM and HP, were able to charge a premium price for their blades, telling customers they&#8217;d eventually recoup the costs through space, energy and management savings. Then, last November, Dell belatedly brought the full force of its familiar, low-cost strategy to the market. Already, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/wp-trackback.php?p=1577\">as David Berlind reports<\/a>, the price premiums are evaporating as IBM and HP struggle to defend their market shares against the Dell onslaught. Berlind says he hears that &#8220;it&#8217;s a marketshare bloodbath behind closed doors and that IBM and HP are offering steep discounts off their street prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the long run,&#8221; Michael Dell once said, &#8220;all technology tends toward low-cost standards.&#8221; And that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time it takes for a new, premium IT product to turn into a cheap commodity grows ever briefer. Latest exhibit: blade servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}