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IBM: The mainframe is back
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| Aug 18, 2008
| Vivian Yeo
Posted on 08/18/2008 11:43:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ShadowAce
To: nickcarraway
Big Blue stock has been hot. Up almost 30% in value the past year.
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posted on
08/18/2008 11:54:51 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: nickcarraway
Didn’t even know they still used the term mainframe.
To: nickcarraway
Wow, I haven’t worked on a mainframe for ten years now, feels like 100.
To: Cementjungle
Meanwhile, Steve Chen (architect of many Cray systems)continues his work for the Chinese, developing their supercomputers.
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posted on
08/19/2008 12:36:34 AM PDT
by
mukraker
To: Cementjungle
This doesn’t surprise me. Client servers have been around for decades but today’s microsoft machines lack the sophistication of the mainframe client server class. Bill Gates answer? saturated the market with important, but hacker intrusive, often not sophisticated barefoot pilgrim software that simply can’t cut the mustard. Mainframe software engineers are in a class by themselves who fully understand the workings and sophistication of the architecture.
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posted on
08/19/2008 12:43:07 AM PDT
by
yorkie01
To: nickcarraway
All RIGHT! Time to hone up my FORTRAN card skills!
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posted on
08/19/2008 4:23:36 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
To: nickcarraway
All RIGHT! Time to hone up my FORTRAN card skills!
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posted on
08/19/2008 4:24:25 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
To: bmwcyle
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posted on
08/19/2008 4:34:09 AM PDT
by
theKid51
To: 50sDad
Damm and I just threw away my old JCL and PL/I books.
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posted on
08/19/2008 4:34:56 AM PDT
by
baltoga
To: ourusa
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08/19/2008 4:55:01 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
To: nickcarraway; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
08/19/2008 5:49:11 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: baltoga
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posted on
08/19/2008 5:51:01 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: nickcarraway
Human resources, though, could prove a challenge. "There are simply not enough young, bright people wanting to learn mainframe skills over PHP, Java, Flash and other 'hip' Web 2.0 technologies," said Sheina. I don't understand why that should be a problem.
All of those things can be run on the mainframe, with the possible exception of a hypothetical "Flash" backend [and while the "Flash" client would certainly make calls to the hardware in the form of codecs, I don't see why a "Flash" backend, on the server, would need to make calls to the hardware].
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08/19/2008 7:09:51 AM PDT
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KayEyeDoubleDee
(const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
To: baltoga
Not me; my JCL, PL/I, COBOL and mainframe assembler books are safely tucked away. Five years ago where I worked then at least half of my work was mainframe COBOL and JCL.
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08/19/2008 7:11:30 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: nickcarraway
Seems to me that the Web 2.0 paradigm looks an awful lot like the mainframe paradigm.
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posted on
08/19/2008 7:30:41 AM PDT
by
Egon
(The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
To: nickcarraway
Wait until POWER7 comes out. It is going to be hot.
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posted on
08/19/2008 8:31:19 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: AppyPappy
C0B07 r0x You can have that one.
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08/19/2008 8:31:25 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(My marriage was everything I wish I didn't know. So why am I engaged again? Because I'm crazy!)
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