"...I don't want my health care information or my financial data running on those platforms."... yet.
Maybe not Goog or MS, but AWS will surely keep trying to eat IBM's pie. Already, there's zPDT for dev/test-ing in AWS. I mean, it's not real workload, there's still IBM licensing and all, but parts of the workload (not prod maybe) have started escaping, I suspect. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 8:06 PM, Bill Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > What I've been saying for years and catching flack for it. I have my pictures > on AWS, and buy things that likely run on AWS, or Azure/Google cloud. But, I > don't want my health care information or my financial data running on those > platforms. > > On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 09:26:17 AM EST, Matt Hogstrom > [email protected] wrote: > > Its all about the workload. AWS is not a platform to run the world’s finances > on but storing someone’s pictures or having applications where BASE is > acceptable and provides accelerated innovation makes it better than the > existing processes in many shops today. > > I have a truck and a Honda Pilot … I use each for their purposes and don’t > criticize the Pilot for not carrying a load of dirt and my truck for gas > mileage that is the not as good as the Pilot. > > Sorry for Amazon as I suspect a number of people are impacted and I’m glad > the mainframe was up to buy my morning coffee. > > > On Dec 7, 2021, at 11:30 PM, Bill Johnson > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > AWS had a larger & longer outage today, than all the outages on the > > mainframes I’ve worked on in the last 30 years. Much worse. Yet, some here > > think AWS is going to replace the mainframe for critical applications like > > banking, health care, big retail, and insurance. Plus, the mainframe has > > had plenty of negative posts here in the decades I’ve been involved. Nobody > > dies when Netflix isn’t available. (One of the hits from today) people can > > and do die if the drugs they need aren’t available because the computer > > system is down. > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 11:01 PM, kekronbekron > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > Not at anybody in particular: > > > > Do we have to make snide remarks because someone else had an outage? > > > > Don't we remember the times when things on the mainframe itself went south? > > > > Has every site's MF env. been 100% available through all these decades? > > > > Is it wrong to fail sometimes? > > > > Is this the attitude with which you'd like to retire, holding onto precious > > remarks and burning the path behind you as you leave? > > > > What does that say about one's mentality and outlook in life? > > > > - KB > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 3:54 AM, Ronald Wells > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Pretty pic/web pages make the $$ did you not get the memo > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of > > > John McKown > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:57 PM > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > Subject: Re: AWS is down. > > > > > > ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION ** > > > > > > Oh, but they advertise that they can replace mainframe. Well, maybe the > > > processing. But not the on site reliability. Of course, for WFH, the > > > internet is the week point. And, most likely, also the home equipment. I > > > just had to reboot my Windows PC at home because it decided to stop > > > talking to my internet router. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:49 Bill Johnson < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Amazon Web Services is down. I can’t get to my pictures. Glad we don’t > > > > > > > > have our mainframe running there. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > Email Disclaimer > > > > > > This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, > > > which may be legally privileged information. 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