6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
10:09 p.m.
On 04/06/2013 04:40 PM, MG wrote:
On 6-apr-2013 21:54, Dave McGuire wrote:
You'd be wrong about that. I'm a UNIX guy. I'm impressed with IBM's
big
stuff, but that's not the world I work in.
Yours is a bit of a (stereo-)typical response of either a PC salesman or
YET ANOTHER mailing list troll. Just sayin'..
Ok Sparky, whatever you say.
A bit of a (stereo-)typical response of an IBM advocate/apologist. Don't kill the messenger. All that I'm doing
is stating what I've
been observing. It's a plain fact that hardly anyone knows what
an IBM mainframe is. I'm sure there are even people --- like those
born in the 1990s and beyond --- who don't even know what IBM is.
It doesn't help for IBM that they're completely invisible to most
people nowadays.
They don't need to be "visible to people". Mainframes aren't
mass-market
game-playing machines. 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.
Whether you happen to like it, or agree with it, or not.
I'd love to try "z" sometime (or even
something older, like an
S/390), but IBM isn't exactly making that very easy for people
like myself, now are they?
Why would they? Do you think they have some need for people like yourself,
who seems to think they're "dead" anyway?
Note to self: Stop feeding the troll!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA