Speaking of come backs. Years ago IBM had something called TCAM (a teleprocessing access method WITH QUEUEING). Well, after twenty years, guess what MQ series is?
Warren -------------- Original message from Graham Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > and maybe a COBOL comeback too . . > 'and old man CICS just keeps rolling along' tralala'. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren Brown" > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > To: > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:50 PM > Subject: Re: IBM's financial results ? > > > >I think that IBM did a brilliant job of keeping the mainframe alive when > >industry, academia etc pronounced the mainframe dead in 1980. VSE died and > >came back, VM died and came back, linux runs on the mainframe and soon the > >wonderful Windows will be able to run on the mainframe! > > -------------- Original message from Mohammad Khan > > : -------------- > > > > > >> May be they just know how to do it but I'm sure there are a lot of > >> conspiracy > >> theories about it as well. I guess a google search for such theories will > >> be > >> more productive than a query here at IBM-MAIN. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:34:13 -0500, Anton Britz > >> wrote: > >> > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >Just to get all these "Wandering minds" on to something more productive > >> >: > >> > > >> >How do you think IBM keeps their financial results so "rosy" ? > >> > > >> >All the other vendors have annouced "buy backs" ex. Dell/Sun etc but IBM > >> >still > >> >announced fantastic results. > >> > > >> >Something smells fishy some where.. > >> > > >> >Anton > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
