Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-18 Thread scott Ford
R.S. ——. Absolutely magnificent Best Regards, Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM R.S. 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.

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-18 Thread R.S.
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

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread zMan
Hey, but it's got Pie Chat. Who doesn't love pie? And chat? Srsly, Arvind is IBM's last hope. Ginni was a disaster in every way for the company and investors. If you have 38 minutes, check out The Decline of IBM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4b1D1vWRnc Not perfect, but pretty close to

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:34 AM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > The mainframe’s demise has been talked about for decades and yet it still > processes most of the world’s critical transactions. >

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread Bill Johnson
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

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread scott Ford
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,

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
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.

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-16 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
They don't mention Broadcom. CA were absorbed a while ago. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 2:51 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > Hard to know how to evaluate this article's reliability. The .me country > code, it says here, tells us the web site is based in Montenegro, where the > official language is

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-16 Thread Bob Bridges
Hard to know how to evaluate this article's reliability. The .me country code, it says here, tells us the web site is based in Montenegro, where the official language is Montenegrin with Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Albanian in common usage. This particular item sounds like it's written by

Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-16 Thread Bill Johnson
The mainframe is far from dead/dying. https://dailyscience.me/2020/03/16/mainframe-market-to-see-incredible-growth-during-2020-2030/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to