I never post BS. I interviewed at PayPal quite a few years ago at their Columbus, Ohio location. Up in Dublin a northern suburb. They had a mainframe then. Apple & Amazon uses a credit card processor which uses a mainframe. PayPal also tries to push a credit card on you which is processed by Synchrony bank’s mainframe. IBM isn’t splitting into 2 to sell one. Google split into 2 also a few years ago. Patents are a good thing and generally indicate a company has intelligent engineers whose work should be protected. Latest quarter IBM did over 6 billion in cloud revenue. Half what AZURE did & more than half what AWS did. Yeah, they bought it from Red Hat but that’s just smart business. So the 2% claim is now BS. The mainframe isn’t going away in my lifetime & probably not yours.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, October 12, 2020, 6:57 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: On 2020-10-12 6:41 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: > Coming from the guy who said he does PayPal, Amazon, & Apple transactions and > doesn’t know those transactions are mainframe processed through a bank. So what? The payments system is not running on a mainframe. Nor is the mobile payments back-end and all the other infrastructure. Paypal are moving to GCP https://cloud.google.com/customers/featured/paypal#the-solution. You seem to think I am bashing the mainframe, which I am not. I love the mainframe. I work on it everyday and have done for 30+ years. But I have a low tolerance for BS! > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:53 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 2020-10-12 12:19 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: >> Amazon, PayPal, & Apple either have a mainframe (PayPal did when I >> interviewed there) > In what parallel universe did Amazon, Paypal run a mainframe? lala-land? > > If I google "paypal technology stack" and I don't see a mainframe! > Mainframes are for running legacy applications written in COBOL, PL/I etc. > Paypal is written in Java, Scala, Python and recently replatformed to > Node.js - JavaScript! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
