Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-31 Thread Kirk Talman
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/30/2012 05:33:33 PM: > From: "Roberts, John J" > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: 01/30/2012 05:45 PM > Subject: Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > > And there i

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
yes they are located in 200 countries. However, those server are owned and run by banks not Visa. As of several years ago, Visa Inc had 2 large, 1 medium and 1 small zos data centers, not counting test. the 145,000 is split over a large number of machines. And not all of them are zos. On Mon,

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading.  The > authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about > 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3 years ago.  The clearing system (zos) run > about 24,000 txn/second as of about

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Ken Porowski
il address. -- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 5:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes And there is a general belief that

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Roberts, John J
And there is a general belief that the people who know about mainframes are old, too, you know, like the guy with the COBOL skills and dubious hygiene who shuffles along the corridor, looking like he eats his blue-plate special at 4:30 in the afternoon. I am offended that anyone would think t

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
-- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes > > Interesting article on forbes.com: &g

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Ken Porowski
t from or received at this email address. -- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Forbes:

Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Edward Jaffe
Interesting article on forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2012/01/30/kids-see-a-future-in-mainframes/ -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -