Moshix signed up for an AWS instance, loaded up Hercules and Turnkey 4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to log in.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:31 AM Bill Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cloud - Something the mainframe has been doing for decades. We called it > outsourcing. GM ran their entire organization out of mainframes in Charlotte, > Dallas, & perhaps another in the 80’s. The internet just made it easier, and > less secure & reliable. Brought outsourcing to a wider audience. > > Mainframe modernization. An oxymoron. Like saying today’s cars are like cars > from 50 years ago. The mainframe is more advanced than any other platforms. > Billions of dollars of investment and patented technologies have guaranteed > its place for decades to come. > > Sure, AWS, Azure, Oracle cloud & numerous others are creating cheap, > unsecured, unreliable, platforms for small businesses, picture storage, > emails, instant messaging, and many other tasks that aren’t show stoppers if > they’re hacked or down for one of many reasons. As Capital One found out and > lost almost 200 million for the pleasure. > > I enjoy the glee that many of you exude when IBM has what might be perceived > as negative news. I saw the same glee when in the 90’s some idiot said the > mainframe would be history circa 2000. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Friday, June 17, 2022, 9:06 AM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:50 AM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Maybe it's the case that customers don't want to use IBMs cloud. Where I > > live in Australia the big four banks are moving significant chunks of > > their infrastructure to public cloud and have government legislation to > > do so. NAB in particular have been quite aggressive, although like most > > sensible enterprises they have gone down the multi-cloud route with > > Microsoft Azure so they don't have all their eggs in one basket. > > > > It will be interesting to see if IBM can close the cloud gap. Playing > > catch-up is difficult when competing with behemoths with a decade+ head > > start. > > > > Indeed. Word from insiders is that since IBM "management" have decided > cloud is The Answer, folks have started playing games, like attributing all > CICS-related revenue as "cloud". Q4 2020, IBM claimed $6.2B in cloud > revenue on total revenue of $16B. Given that nobody EVER says"cloud" and > "IBM" in the same sentence in the real world, those numbers are quite > difficult to believe without this kind of gameplaying. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
