6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
11:31 p.m.
On 6-apr-2013 23:09, Dave McGuire wrote:
You'd be wrong about that. I'm a UNIX guy.
I'm impressed with
IBM'sbig stuff, but that's not the world I work in.
Why do you care then? You get overly emotional for something you're
not even involved with.
Yours is a bit of a (stereo-)typical response of
either a PC
salesmanor YET ANOTHER mailing list troll. Just sayin'..
Bringing out the big guns, calling me a "PC salesman". Is that the
best you can do? Even using one of IBM's own little demon spawn,
the PC, which is now undoing their sacred mainframe. It is irony
at its best, isn't it?
Are you capable of a normal conversation, or are you simply outgunned
so fast and need to resort to weird ad hominem remarks?
They don't need to be "visible to
people".
People, i.e. /little people/, right?
Mainframes aren't mass-market game-playing
machines.
That actually reminded me of this weird 'gem'... (That I saw years
ago.)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G7UA4l2tgA>
They need to be visible to BANKS, and other big-data,
can't-go-down-
no-matter-what industries, which is the world that they OWN.
Again, the NonStop and VMS people will claim the same. I'm (still)
not impressed or convinced.
In fact, Linux (particularly the Red Hat) crowd will claim the same
and even more so once things like Serviceguard start to become
available for it.
Whether you happen to like it, or agree with it, or
not.
Did you even read that Register article, or are you so convinced
of IBM's propaganda?
Hilariously, when I search on the 'net for "mainframe", in the top
results there are denials and negations like "mainframes aren't
dead" and "why the mainframe isn't dead", like also on YouTube and
of IBM itself.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlwztJ2_wdk>
In other words, hilarious stuff (when you have a few minutes to
kill; that's all that IBM spent on that video).
Why would they? Do you think they have some need
for people
likeyourself, who seems to think they're "dead" anyway?
It's just /me/? They should be grateful I've even heard of it
and show /some/ interest. (Which gradually degrades with every
encounter with IBM zealots, like yourself.)
- MG