LOLOLOLOL, if health care companies have outages, people die. If banks have long outages, they can lose millions. Delta’s outage wasn’t their mainframe. It was caused by Crowdstrike. Fort Knox is secure. Is it 100% secure? Of course not. Nothing can claim 100% security. But, the mainframe is the Fort Knox of platforms. That’s why companies with the need for high security, run important business on it.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, March 3, 2025, 10:19 AM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: Right, I wasn't questioning YOU on it, just sayin' that for whatever reason, people have good (to them) reasons to inflate or deflate the cost, and are often lazy about it, too. Just to reiterate (perhaps belabor) the point: If I spend an hour eating lunch instead of working, did that lunch "cost" my company whatever my hourly rate is? No, because I take the time into account when figuring out how much I'm gonna work today. If I have an Etsy site that averages $100/day and Etsy goes down for a day, did that "cost" me $100? Probably not, because at least some of the people who would have bought stuff that day will buy it the next day anyway. Etc. (Are those "costs" zero? Also no.) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cost of an outage (was: The mainframe is alive) Classification: Confidential In my case, quoted from the CIO and CFO. I have no data on how they arrived at that number. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
