Chaye Wala wrote:
If you can fool all of the people all of the time that a mainframe
performs better then it indeed is a mainframe.
The most demanding high transaction systems still use mainframe in the
back end. They have tried to migrate to distributed system, but either
they are too expensive (due to labor costs) or to slow (if they try and
keep the labor cost the same).
It is non standard character set representing nonstandard applications
which do not work and can not be migrated from a non standard platoform
run by bunch of stupids decieving themselves, knowingly that the same
work can be done by a much smaller hardware with losss lesscost is
called a mainframe.
EBCDIC is a standard just like ASCII is.
Yes the hardware is generally less expensive, per box. The problem is
that in order to do the same work you need many more boxes. To manange
all those boxes, you need more people. People cost more that the
hardware and software combined.
If the mainframe is so bad, then why is the distributed world attempting
to copy it. Citrix severs, Windows terminal sever, large scale severs
with redundency built in, virtulization built into the box, custom OS's
that speed up virtulization, attempting to running multiple applications
on a single box instead of getting 20 boxes to run one application.
Each has their own place in the world, people just have to realize that
no single box is the best solution for all situations.
It takes a life time to open one's eyes if the eyesight was ruined by
either IBM or mainframe.
From: "FRASER, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What's a mainframe?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:34:01 +1000
"an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies
serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits
for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as
last year's."
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