I'm highly suspicious of cloud in general, don't get me wrong. But IBM can't just call CICS "cloud" and expect it to mean anything. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one: when the rest of the industry says "cloud" these days, they don't just mean outsourcing, and definitely don't mean CICS. And CICS isn't a synonym for outsourcing in any case.
Actually, if you think of cloud services in terms of HTTPS transactions, CICS isn't that far off in some ways--but it still isn't the same thing, more an older, pre-Internet version of something similar. Yes, CICS can serve web pages; that doesn't make CICS = cloud! "Mainframe modernization" is a pretty bogus term, nicely loaded: "Hmm, if mainframe modernization exists, mainframes must be old-fashioned/obsolete/behind". Wrong, as we know. "Mainframe emulation" is closer, only that tends to make us think zPDT, Hercules, et al.; "z/OS emulation" seems more accurate to me, but isn't the term that folks use, so it doesn't help at this point. It's a mess. But none of this discussion, interesting as it is, relates to the fact that IBM claims to have a cloud presence BUT has chosen to host their offering in AWS. Those two items are pretty hard to reconcile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
