6 Nov
2018
6 Nov
'18
10 p.m.
On 2018-11-06 15:40:56 Michael wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2018 03:01:22 pm J Leslie
Turriff wrote:
They still exist because of the massive costs of migration of legacy
application software written since the 1960s are prohibitive.
I keep hoping that they will some day release a
back-level version of their Mainframe VM OS for use by hobbyists; that
would be a boon to their efforts to stem the tide of migration off their
proprietary platform, but they don't seem to recognize the power of
familiarizing potential users with their proprietary products.
So way off topic...
I think the non-release of the Mainframe OS is probably more from the point
that the pool of skilled consultants for IBM mainframes would drop doing
it. IBM mainframe consultant rates back in the '90s sucked hard compared
to Tandem (acquired by Compaq then HP) and the 'good' ones even then were
bailing to other platforms.
If the 3rd world low cost shops had access to the OS, then I'd guess the
rates would get trashed just like PHP, and quite a few other
languages/CMSes, have been trashed over the last 10+- years or so.
First time business owners don't understand the huge difference in work
ethic between (the majority of) 1st world labor and 3rd world labor, so...
rates drop...
Actually I'm still surprised mainframes exist in the age of things like
autoconfiguration ClusterKnoppix for Beowulf clusters, so maybe IBM is
going down that route with the RH purchase?