That's exactly what I wanted to express.
To complement/expand: this is salesman word, we know that. However some
salesmen want to sell their products, not kill mainframe. Do you need
theses product? Probably no. So, what is the reason to buy it? Mainframe
modernization.
From the other hand - are there shops which should be modernized? Of
course, a lot of! The more time installation exist the more things need
to be upgraded/refreshed. And sometimes (too often!) the things are not
refreshed.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 21.10.2021 o 03:52, Tony Thigpen pisze:
It's a magic salesman word.
A few years ago, it meant moving the mainframe workload to PC using a
PC based Cobol. Later it meant moving to the cloud.
Anytime you hear the word, it means "I have some snake oil to sell you
where I can get rich even if the project fails."
Be aware that while it sounds almost the same, the term "Application
Modernization" usually means good/legitimate things like adding a web
front-end or a better database back-end.
"Mainframe Modernization" is bad, "Application Modernization" is good.
(Normally.)
Tony Thigpen
David Elliot wrote on 10/20/21 6:50 PM:
Does anyone out there know what is meant by the expression "Mainframe
Modernization' '? It seems to be catching on with the Bobs but when you
ask exactly how they propose to modernize their systems all you get is
silence. As in if you don"know we shouldn't even be talking about it.
Any ideas ? Or is it just more BS like 'cloud' or 'devops'?
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