Relson was one of the most knowledgeable. A tremendous talent.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, January 10, 2025, 7:36 PM, Jay Maynard <000005997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: I'll note here that my current employer has been in a get-off-the-mainframe posture for years and only a few months ago officially abandoned that because there's just too much institutional knowledge that is encapsulated in it. On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
