The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Bain) writes: > I have been asked by my management as well as a couple of clients to try > to predict the future of the mainframe. Although I have done some > research and have talked to many client companies, I thought I would ask > a very open ended question to this list since it is you who have your > fingers on the true pulse. I also have enjoyed your many and varied > responses to questions over the years and feel that this exercise may be > informative as well as entertaining. So here goes: ref in this post part of recent thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#81 IBM to the PCM market to older post containing summary of jun90 FORRESTER report "MAINFRAME R.I.P." http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c. history checkup based on survey in mid-89 and some predictions out thru 99 doesn't sound like a lot has changed except possibly use of virtualization for server consolidation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
