6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
8:54 p.m.
On 6-apr-2013 20:41, Dave McGuire wrote:
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...?
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?
I actually thought ofmoving into that line of work
just for job
availability, but it turnsout I didn't need to because I found other
work (which was more "up my alley", so to speak) very quickly.
Okay...
- MG