What a total load of BS! Not the drawing and quartering part, the so-called article content. Ignorance is bliss they say! Didn't they try this "get off the mainframe" thing about 20 years ago and failed at it?
"Shiveley: The mainframe is a legacy architecture. It's been around a long time, and it does some things well. But it has been held hostage by the limited support and limited innovation that takes place in the mainframe environment." BWAH HA HAW!! Did this guy just wake up or what? Even with the Internet he could have done better research to get his "facts" straight! If we have "limited support and limited innovation" I sure would like to see how it could be better! Maybe if IBM brought me my coffee... yeah, that would do it. So the z9 and the next generation are "limited innovation" huh? So saving literally a boat (a very large, plush, ocean type boat) load of money because we are moving TO the mainframe with Linux on VM, we are so "legacy", yes? Kewl! Call me Mr Legacy then. And make sure you use the Mister part because you know how us old legacy SysProgs are! Sheez! Not that the article got me P.O.'d or anything... Jim "Mr Legacy" Vincent On 7/25/07, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We weren't going to shoot you. Drawing and quartering is much more appropriate :-) Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Mainframe shops held hostage, Itanium alliance says http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid80_gci1265623,00. html?track=NL-576&ad=598271&asrc=EM_NLT_1860635&uid=5437138 I'm just the messenger, put down the gun... ...phsiii
