Windows is what s/b toast--hopefully..Linux a much better OS

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Bill Johnson
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2021 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM email migration disaster

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IBM will be around for another half century or more. I remember people saying 
they'd be gone by Y2K. That mainframes were toast. 25 years ago. They still 
process the important stuff.


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On Friday, July 2, 2021, 1:07 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:

See, that's where your blindness comes into play: I have made my living from 
IBM and been a user and fan for almost a half-century. I mourn what a shadow of 
its greatness it has become, and hope that someone can turn them around. But 
the ship seems headed inexorably toward the iceberg. Very sad.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:02 PM Bill Johnson < 
[email protected]> wrote:

> Your anti IBM bias is well known here. And very old.
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> On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:58 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> First, "off-topic" and "IBM-MAIN" are good friends.
>
> Second, this is hardly off-topic when it's paralyzing IBM.
>
> Third, your blind IBM fanboi obeisance is well documented; I for one
> am tired of it, as it defies logic.
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> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 12:55 PM Bill Johnson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> > Off topic.
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> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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> > On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:47 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww
> > w.theregister.com%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fibm_email_outage%2F&amp;data=04
> > %7C01%7CRon.Wells%40OMF.COM%7C12acd3105e7d488200fd08d93d7d39a3%7C57c
> > 0053cb5f84a1e8bb6e8afa09f3b82%7C0%7C0%7C637608430307886394%7CUnknown
> > %7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiL
> > CJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6m%2FixQnCuf6kvv%2FOvvvlZP3UQiJrKUTJd
> > EidWwZb%2BIU%3D&amp;reserved=0
> >
> >  "If we can't even handle our own cloud migration program then why
> >would  any customer trust us?"
> >
> > Indeed. Don't worry, IBM -- nobody actually uses your cloud in the
> > real world anyway, no matter what you claim.
> > --
> > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"
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