6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
9:27 p.m.
On 04/06/2013 03:54 PM, MG wrote:
*sigh* Troll.
They are. I can see you don't much keep up with the news.
Oh, of course. I must've missed the entire financial world's transition to
PCs. It must've been sometime last week.
Since IBM continues to introduce new mainframes at about the same pace that
they always have, and continues to pour GIGANTIC amounts of money into their
development, maybe you should go visit them and tell them about the sad state
of their market, since you clearly know so much better than they do. You
could probably save the company, what with all that unprofitable business
they're doing. They might even make you president!
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.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
While I
generally like The Register, they're reporting on things that are
seen out in the wild everywhere, things that are trendy, and things that are
used to deliver Java web services. Mainframes are not trendy...they just
keep the world going 'round. While some companies (like web hosting
companies) loudly tout what they run, most banks, hospitals, etc generally
do not.
VMS gets the same treatment, but probably deservedly so, eh? It's just
the poor, poor, mainframes that are 'getting it'. Very unfair indeed. If they were no longer profitable, or in
demand, they'd no longer be
available.
If they were so incredibly profitable, why isn't IBM releasing loads of
new "z" things and trying to get one into every major education
mill;
you know, to make sure that there will be enough know-how to keep these
/very profitable/ things up and running...?
Why would they? They're doing fine. The banks haven't stopped buying
them, and that's who matters in that world.
Most of the
people who have been proclaiming "mainframes are dead!"
for the past, oh THIRTY YEARS are the ones selling other types of
systems.
They weren't wrong though, maybe a bit early with their prediction at
most. Nobody
likes a smartass. Just FYI.
Touchy subject?