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To: Peter from Rutland
Who is running mainframes anymore?

Almost all large banks are running mainframes.

7 posted on 06/21/2011 10:53:02 AM PDT by frogjerk (Liberalism: The ideology of envy.)
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To: frogjerk

Banks, insurance companies, payroll providers, airlines reservations, financial management concerns, telecommunications services, subscription billing vendors, governments, the military ...

Yep. Mainframes are dinosaurs. /s


11 posted on 06/21/2011 1:27:43 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: frogjerk

Many big corporations with global operations run multiple “mainframes”.

I did some work at the 3rd largest electronics distributor in the world. Overnight their mainframes - in USA, Asia and Europe - are keeping all their global databases number-crunched, up-to-date and backed up; and during the day the same equipment - world wide - looks like a bunch of “networks” comprising their entire global Intranet, simultaneously running some old “green-screen” and up-to-date “X86” file-server and client-server apps.

IBM has reinvented what a “mainframe” can do, so that it can do just about anything through virtualization of the supposed non-mainframe world, on the mainframe.

I know one outfit that runs a small “server farm” on a mainframe.


18 posted on 06/21/2011 3:38:54 PM PDT by Wuli
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