Every few years, people predict that the mainframe is on its last legs and will be taken over by the technology du jour.
That replacement technology has ranged over the years from client-server computing to Web-based computing, and, now, it's cheap, commodity x86-based servers. Don't believe a word of it -- mainframe sales have begun climbing again. A mainframe's capacity is large enough that it enables massive consolidation, which helps slash costs. Perhaps another telling comment we've heard concerning Z processors came from an IBM rep at a recent gathering. When asked about sales trends, the rep indicated that sales of mainframes were in fact on the rise. What is the primary market for this rise? China. Full article here: http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3764656/The+Mainframe+S till+Lives.htm James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux Base Technologies, Inc (703) 921-6220 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
