6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
11:24 a.m.
On 6-apr-2013 18:00, William Donzelli wrote:
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.
At least HP doesn't even bother to lie about the (real) numbers of the
VMS and HP-UX install base, they just don't care. So, I guess that
does still make IBM a bit better...
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.
It doesn't help much either that there are no --- absolutely zero,
null, nothing, nada --- remote access "z" systems. Only "i" (an
AS/400), that I can think of, but that's not a true mainframe;
quasi-mainframe at best?
- MG