I'm as vocal a mainframe fundamentalist as you can find, but I'm bound by the constraints of the 'fit for purpose' principle. Theological objections to mainframe are as evil as theological objections to weenie-ware. Do what makes sense in an ecumenical spirit.
Some years ago we had a management guy who did his MBA thesis on replacing mainframe with Intel. Sadly for him, but luckily for us, he never prevailed. On the other hand, as the cited article states, 'A mainframe is not so easy, and definitely not a do-it-yourself project.' Please, ixnay on ellingtay onnerCay. But still, point taken. Employ MVS, Windows, xNix where they make business sense. To do otherwise is dereliction of duty. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison Lizette, True, but... Have ever noticed the same search on Google can give you different results? It's a synchronization problem. Would that work for credit card balances? Ron -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison Not bad. Google, Facebook, and Twitter own giant data centers all over the planet, and they are built with racks of commodity hardware. If thousands upon thousands of small servers networked together are good enough for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, then shouldn’t they be good enough for you? Perhaps you remember IBM’s famous commercial “The servers, they stole all our servers!“. Consolidating all of that complexity into a mainframe might be just what you need. Let’s take a look at what the mainframe really is, and consider its use cases. I noticed this: Original Article was at SUSE The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. The original article has been published in German at DataCenter Insider. A big “Thank You” to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog. https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/mainframe-versus-server-farm-comparison/ Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mark Regan > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 8:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Fwd: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison > > https://dzone.com/articles/the-mainframe-versus-the-server-farm-a-comp > arison > > -- > > Mark T. Regan, K8MTR > CTO1 USN/USNR-Retired, 1969-1991 > -- > > Thanks, > > Mark T. Regan, K8MTR > CTO1 USN/USNR-Retired, 1969-1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
