I sent the author of this hit piece a few real journalistic pieces which contradicted her claims. She responded kindly and stated she would do more research (or any research in my opinion) if she did another mainframe piece. The problem with journalism today is everyone thinks they are one, and sites like tech republic are only interested in clicks & eyeballs to monetize the material.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 7:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:53:51 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >You're probably correct about the academic mindset and IBM's failure to >successfully market to them that the mainframe CAN do all the "cool" things >they perceive as the latest-and-greatest-idea(s), and is actively "keeping up" >with the best of those ideas. > Yes, but JCL. JCL is to programming as Roman numerals are to arithmetic. And EBCDIC. "Doesn't play well with others." >Add to that the opensoource mindset that software SHOULD BY RIGHT be "free" >and you have a tough market to break into (again) from a for-profit company >perspective. > >The 20th century "80% discount" that IBM offered to academic institutions >pre-consent-decree would today probably be laughed right out of the Bursar's >or Treasurer's office. 20% of too-much-already is a lot more than they pay >for the little hardware beasts and the nothing they pay for the software that >runs on them. > >It's a tough sell now. Would have been worlds easier if addressed >intelligently back then and continued into this century. > >It was an IBM chairman who declared o investors that "IBM will never be in a >low-margin business". They are getting what they asked for. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
