Ot: Death of the mainframe

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> >It appears that the pendant's who predicted the "Death of the
> >mainframe" were very wrong.
> 
> >In today's NY time business sales of IBM's new mainframes were up.
> 
> >I know most of us do not deal with companies which need a mainframe
> >but it
> >is nice to know that these workhorses are still around although in a
> >much
> >different format then the older generation.
> 
> There are probably a large percentage of programs running on
> these written in COBOL. I wouldn't be surprised if there were
> still some written in Autocoder emulation.
> 
> I wonder if they still require huge quantities of JCL.

In fact, the growth of Red Hat/390 on zSystem class hardware is *enormous*,
for reasons not solely tied to IBM's pricing policies. :-)

Some guy got something like 44000 idle OS copies running over VM on a single
processor box.  Surprises me webhosting farms arent switching; mainframes 
can terminate 10GE easy, and take a *lot* less power than racks of CoreI's.

Cheers,
-- jra
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