News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead A very-much-alive Mark Twain famously commented that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.
Mainframers know that the same is true (and always has been) regarding reports and predictions of the mainframe's death, including Stewart Alsop's unwise 1991 suggestion in InfoWorld that the last mainframe would be unplugged in 1996, immortalized by the Computer History Museum. <http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/182/734> http://www.share.org/p/bl/ar/blogaid=256 -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
