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Agreed. There are statistics and damn statistics. Numbers can be made to
say anything these days.
Alternatives *are in the process of maturing*. They certainly are not
there yet! I am amazed at the failure tolerance of distributed
application systems. If it is broke, they spend more money on it without
getting to the root cause: bad architectural design. The mainframe
systems have never been given this kind of leeway.
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And probably never will have this sort of leeway. Until IT management
learns to place business needs first and platform second. They need to
learn to select platforms based on business needs, not on PERCEIVED ease
of use. And the advocates of smaller platforms better start thinking
real hard about change control and quality control, backup and recovery,
disaster recovery, and many of the other problems we've already
addressed, in some cases very well, on those "dinosaurs" we call mainframes.
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