R.S. ——. Absolutely magnificent ........ Best Regards, Scott
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding cloud: it's trendy. Fashionable. > It's like many other buzzwords from the past. > It doesn't matter mainframe environment in your shop fulfills all cloud > advantages and more. > Cloud has to be from Google, Amazon, Microsoft. The brand name has to be > trendy. > Security? Nevermind! Many other companies went that way, so we also can. > Platforms? The only trendy system is "cloud", which usually means > Windows. Sometimes Linux, but it's much less trendy. > Trend is important. This is the thing described in airline magazines and > discussed in lobby at VIP conferences about new financial trends. Yes, > trends. > > Regarding mainframe: IMHO big shops will remain on mainframe. It's to > serious too follow after trendy colorful solutions offered by PFCSKs or > startup owner which offer "sometimes it works" systems. It's too big > money to experiment. > The problem is with small and medium shops. New manager with new trendy > vision (yes, vision) can invest a lot of money to start the project. And > invest even more when prolong end date. And quietly stop investing in > mainframe. And be happy when mainframe system perform worse and worse - > that's the "reason" to get rid of... > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > W dniu 17.03.2020 o 16:34, Bill Johnson pisze: > > The mainframe’s demise has been talked about for decades and yet it > still processes most of the world’s critical transactions. > > > https://blog.syncsort.com/2017/06/mainframe/6-industries-mainframes-king/ > > You might put you pictures and music on the cloud but are you willing to > put your health care and financial info there? I’m not. > > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 10:54 AM, scott Ford <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I am part of a ISV, but I see more a trend toward PC (aka Windows and > Linux > > ), which is fine, but I think people are missing > > the multi-platform resources available. Everyone is focused on 'the > cloud'. > > I dont feel its the end-all, just another tool. > > > > Scott > > (my opinion is my own) > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:45 AM Paul Gilmartin < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:51:12 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > >> > >>> ... Nigerian prince ... > >>> > >> I suspect they expect fair(?) compensation for their survey effort. > >> Or, GIYF. > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Bill Johnson > >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 11:12 > >>> > >>> The mainframe is far from dead/dying. > >>> > >> > https://dailyscience.me/2020/03/16/mainframe-market-to-see-incredible-growth-during-2020-2030/ > >> As I read the topics of their Recent Posts (visible on handheld, not on > >> desktop!?), I suspect, "There is a great future in plastics. 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