Wade Curry wrote:
Well... here's another one that may interest the folks on this list. Not nearly as long as the other one, and possibly a little more interesting once you manage to get past my 3 or 4 putrid paragraphs :-) . The breach between the mainframe and *nix camps is more cultural than anything else, IMHO. We tout our clusters and distributed setups, and then install a blade server to get them all in the same rack. They tout the blessings of consolidated hardware, higher throughput and ability to get everything out of a CP (they are designed to run at 100% capacity), and then install dozens of virtual machines...
I always assumed the breach between the two camps was simply legacy and reliability.
"Mainframe" folks have a *lot* of old stuff that they still support from days long forgotten by almost everyone. "Mainframe" folks also often have strict reliability requirements.
I never really considered there to be that much difference between an IBM "mainframe" and, say, a Sun ES 10000 running Solaris.
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