Craddock, Chris wrote:
Agreed. Current technology is capable of exploiting very large volumes
but it isn't clear that customers are actually exploiting much of that.
John's comment was fairly typical of comments you and I have both heard
hundreds of times from customers and even from folks from IBM and the
ISV side of the aisle at TDMs in the last couple of years.
For a lot of those people a whole 3390-3 volume is still perceived to be
a lot of space and there was a time when it really was. Just not today.
All I was saying is that too many customer decision makers are stuck in
the past.
This seems to be just another example of an often-recurring theme on the
mainframe.
The platform has evolved to offer an array of amazing technologies. But,
a large percentage of its users just won't use them.
This leaves the mainframe open to attack by purveyors of the
alternatives. IT professionals with "80-column minds" are our platform's
own worst enemy!
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