Mainframes have been running node.js for years. In fact you can run Linux/390 and z/OS side by side on the same box with LPARs...
"A Forrester survey released in 2019 found that 56% of respondents planned to increase their mainframe usage over the next two years, while 36% planned on the same amount of use. IBM has also aggressively added support for newer technologies on System z. "All modern stuff runs well on the big box, from Linux to Kubernetes," Mueller said. "So cloud makes sense when you need infinite compute for AI/ML or storage for Big Data. Then the size nature of the mainframe is the problem. But that's the problem with all on-premises IT." https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/252478861/Google-Cloud-adds-mainframe-migration-expertise-via-acquisition If you have a low tolerance for BS then why are you spouting it? Joe On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:57 AM David Crayford <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 [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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
