1. A degree and n education are two different things.
2. Modern business in the US is driven by cash flow and stock
prices, not long term profit.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of
Charles Mills <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2025 2:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Is z/OS finally doomed? WAS: How to collect multiple datasets
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I agree. I unequivocally agree. I have said the same thing in various fora.
But here's the question. How do you account for the fact that so many of us
"know this" but IBM does not? IBM has rooms full of people with high IQs and
degrees in marketing and product management. Why do we see this obvious truth
and they do not?
I mean that as a serious question.
Charles
On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:15:41 -0500, Enzo Damato <[email protected]>
wrote:
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>I've said it in SHARE talks, I've said it in person, and I've probably
>said it on this mailing list, but the only way that IBM is ever going to
>grow the mainframe platform, solve the skills gap, or even just stop the
>slow gradual erosion of customers and installed sites is if they create
>a machine cheap enough, and with license costs low enough, that /new
>startups can afford it./ IBM must bring in customers who don't yet have
>legacy, and that means startups and new customers. The most effective
>way to sell mainframes right now would be for IBM to create a box that
>costs 10K, takes up 4RU, and can run the equivalent of a few dozen
>decent sized EC2 instances. This would be useless for every existing
>customer base, but it would be affordable to startups, who are don't
>want to get annihilated by AWS/GCP/Azure costs, and haven't yet built
>out their infrastructure.
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