The C is dead, long live the C

[Jim Herrmann]

Obviously people who have never worked with mainframes.  99.9999% up time.  
Contains 70% of the worlds data.  Runs Apache.  Runs Linux.  Runs thousands 
of Linux images.  Last year, mainframe sales increased 12% while the rest of 
the computer industry was growing in negative numbers.  Mainframes are more 
cost effective than server farms.  They require less staff, less maintenance, 
have more mature disaster recovery procedures, handle more data, and process 
more transactions than any other system in wide usage today.  If all the 
mainframes turned to dust, you wouldn't have a bank account, you wouldn't be 
able to book an airline reservation, you wouldn't have insurance, your 
Charles Schwab account would be gone, and your lights would probably go out.  
If a large company has a major mission critical application, it is most often 
entrusted to a mainframe.

And now, you can get a mainframe with Linux running on the bare iron!  No, my 
friend.  Mainframes are not going away anytime soon, if ever.  Today's 
mainframe is not your father's mainframe.  Just like everything else, the 
mainframe has evolved into something new.

Peace,
Jim

On Sunday 10 February 2002 08:54 pm, Adam Turk wrote:
> >Mainframes running NFS make nice disk servers :)
>
> I like this guy. 8) Mainframes should be converted to linux disk slaves.
>