6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
9:05 p.m.
On 04/06/2013 12:00 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
This is painfully true. And it really shouldn't be, because when the two
worlds combine, very cool things can happen. The strengths and weaknesses
mesh almost perfectly.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Now they only
need to figure out how to keep the mainframe itself
alive...
Their impending death has slowed down to a snail's pace. There is
speculation that the amount of sites moving away from the mainframes
and the number of new mainframe installations is about even, but IBM
is very secretive about real numbers.
It is too bad that the ultra-conservative mainframe types will not
loosen their ties enough to get blood to their brains and listen to
the Unix people, and that the cocky Unix people will not shut up about
how great Unix is and listen to what mainframe people have to offer.
Oil and water.