Looks like the mainframe is not dead yet. Mainframes aren’t going away.
Seems some companies know what to do with their technology. For instance, if a company had a mainframe they could have moved a large retail application to it. Or perhaps install an ERP system. Of course they could just spin up a ton of servers running windows.
I finished the Great Courses Story Telling course today. I can now move on to the Electronics course.
I also finished the clock kit I was building.
Congrats on the clock! …and your MF suggested-uses make a little too much sense. The article talks about how MF’s are “resiliant”, “tough”, & “have built-in redundancy” — and that “The approach should be to look at it from a business, technical, and financial perspective — not just a financial, total-cost-of-acquisition perspective”.
Why would anyone need any of that?
Well, I think they would have to have an understanding of the existing systems, but hey why not implement a new “legacy” that you pay the full cost over and over every 5 years. Yoda was right “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.”