Regarding 100% customers:
- Did you think about replatforming?
- Yes.
(OK, another one on the list)
- And what?
- And concluded it would be very stupid idea. We did the analysis and we
know that.
Another explanation:
Mainframe shops are sometimes big companies. It is very likely to find
an idiot in large group. Ask the idiot, note his responses. Is the idiot
the person who decide? Well...
It is also somehow likely to find out a person who think Churchill,
Roosevelt and Stalin were soccer players.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 09.06.2020 o 14:02, Bob Bridges pisze:
A coworker just sent me this brief article.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/everyone-wants-to-retire-mainframes-but-74-of-modernization-efforts-fail/
I'm interested in two aspects of this:
1) The writer uses the word "modernization" quite a bit, and as far as I can tell she
uses it, without explanation, to mean "switching from mainframes to more recently invented
platforms". This is the old assumption we've talked about recently.
2) There's a really surprising number in there:
"...almost 100% of survey respondents plan to move legacy applications to the
cloud this year and the motivation to move is clear:
- 60% strongly agree they will be left behind competitively if they fail to
modernize
- 33% say modernizing has allowed the company to be more reactive to market
changes
- 34% say legacy modernization has accelerated digital transformation projects
About three-quarters of leaders said they have started a modernization program but
failed to complete it...."
Can that "almost 100%" claim be true? I confess that three out of my last three clients
are talking about eliminating the mainframe, but I supposed it to be an anomaly. Maybe the survey
used the word "modernize" and the author ~assumed~ this must mean dropping the mainframe.
The article also says "Mainframes are still critical to business operations with 71%
of the Fortune 500 depending on these machines, including 92 of the world's 100 largest
banks". Come on - she's telling us that almost ~all~ of those companies intend to
switch legacy applications to the cloud? I just can't buy that. ~My~ bank had certainly
better not be planning such a move.
---
Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
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