On 12 Oct 2009 12:35:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >-----------------------------<snip>--------------------------- >If Congress is getting rid of their last mainframe, this only proves the >VALUE of a mainframe. Lord knows they get everything ELSE wrong up there... >---------------------------<unsnip>--------------------------- >Have you EVER heard of anyone in Congress having ANYTHING that might >pass for a brain? > >Sweep 'em all out and replace them with folks who haven't spent their >entire lives in politics! THEM you might get some rational, realistic >thinkers. :-)
While I am no lover of a lot of what the House has done under either ideology, in regard to the decommissioning of the mainframe the applications they are running would determine the relative value of the move. If they moved to packages which were cheaper or more full functioned on other platforms, then this was a good move. This also probably was done by the administrative staff with relatively little input from most of the house members. The have enough other headaches and areas where they are forced to make decisions based on little knowledge and much controversy (heck we can't agree on JES2 versus JES3 and I know the areas of MVS where my ignorance is really vast rather than just tolerable let alone the new stuff). > >Rick >--- >If you're not in the lead, the view never changes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
