On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:26:58 -0500, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
>Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another >https://planetmainframe.com/2023/06/sabre-is-getting-off-the-mainframe-one-way-or-another/ > >"No, really, we mean it this time." > >And this is almost 18 months old; I can't remember how I came across it now, >alas. ("Senility: not just a river in Africa") > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This has been "in progress" for a long time. Migrating platforms is challenging. I used to migrate people from PROFS, All-in-one and some legacy LAN systems to Microsoft Exchange and every migration had its own challenges. You all have migration failures, but there have been many successes. All my local councils all migrated from Mainframes 15 years ago, mostly seamlessly. Yes big organizations find this more difficult, simply because of the complexities of the systems, not because you can't duplicate what a Mainframe does elsewhere. In fact the big challenge is to do it and save money... The latest "report" I could find on SABRE from January this year is here:- https://www.sabre.com/insights/a-journey-to-tackle-legacy-code-in-online-travel/ which covers many of the challenges in migration and then claims to have:- We moved 93% of compute capacity from physical data centers to the public cloud, resulting in a 50% decrease in our compute costs. We migrated more than 120 million bookings from a mainframe-based system to one using Google Cloud’s Spanner database, without impacting customer operations. And we modernized siloed data stores by migrating them to Google’s Big Query data lake product, lowering costs, and improving security and data management in the process. so "is it still running on Mainframes" or "How much is still running on Mainframe..... ... I will be watching for announcements its bought more mainframes.... AND whilst I don't believe the "improving security" its worth reading the whole report, especially the last few paragraphs which are focused on AI. Like me, you are probably very wary about the claims made for AI but I am pretty sure investors think differently, and any business that does not have some strategy on AI will be downgraded..... Dave G4UGM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
