6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
2:51 p.m.
On 6-apr-2013 22:27, Dave McGuire wrote:
/Fortunately/, for a minute I thought it was a touchy subject! LOL.
- MG
*sigh* Troll.
You really shouldn't get so 'emotional' over these things.
They are. I can see you don't much keep up
with the news.
I realize this is a retro/classic computing mailing list, but...
Why would they? They're doing fine. The banks
haven't stopped
buying them, and that's who matters in that world.
But the NonStop and other people tell me exactly the same. Who am
I supposed to believe?
Also, how would that plead well for the platform considering the
recent wave of issues with the internet banking? (Especially here
in Europe, which has been in the news the last few days.)
Oh, of course. I must've missed the entire
financial world's
transition to PCs. It must've been sometime last week.
Not (just) the financial world. But yes, you probably did...
Since IBM continues to introduce new mainframes at
about the same
pace that they always have
Which is probably too slow for nowadays.
and continues to pour GIGANTIC amounts of money into
their development,
Not enough likely.
maybe you should go visit them and tell them about the
sad state of
their market
The last contact I had with IBM, via e-mail, I only got a bunch of
badly written e-mail messages with very serious, repeated, grammar
mistakes and a quote of EUR 350/hr. for a temporary so-called 'service
contract'. Yet, all I wanted to do was verify some part numbers (and
IBM sure loves [ab]using those and many of them, too!)
From then on, I realized I was a few million short to be heard by
IBM.
Touchy
subject?
Not really...I just don't like trolls. Or pricks with chips on their
shoulders who make loud assertions about things that they clearly know JACK
POINT SHIT about.