Let me start by saying nobody loves the mainframe more than I do. The mainframe, and the mainframe software business, has been very, very good to me.
That said, no matter how many times we tell smirking tales here of someone's get-off-the-mainframe project that failed or took three times as long as expected, the fact is that this is a platform that it would seem that perhaps three out of four installations *wish* they were off of. That is not something that makes me proud, and I don't think it should make any of us proud. If I were a senior executive at IBM, it would not make me proud, and in fact would be a severe danger warning. The fact that there is no magic get-off-the-mainframe solution today does not mean that there will not be one tomorrow. Charles On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:05:49 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >The large insurance company in my town switched the lights off in the >mainframe last month. We’re now down to 1 remaining mainframe site, a bank. >When I moved here 26 years ago there were about 15 sites. I can remember the >carnage of the 90s when jumping to SAP was the thing. And contrary to the >fluff pieces on the PlanetMainframe site those migrations did not fail. > >> On 10 Jan 2025, at 22:43, Steve Beaver >> <0000050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >> >> I had a customer, a mid-sized insurance company that stated in 1995 they >> were exiting >> The mainframe space. Well its 2025 and they are still on a z13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
