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Forever is such a long time. There are no new projects started on mainframes and there's a definite, if still quite flat, trajectory towards moving things off t
by mseebach 9y ago
Forever is such a long time. There are no new projects started on mainframes and there's a definite, if still quite flat, trajectory towards moving things off the mainframe. So eventually it will die, but it will be decades.
- delinka 9y agoAs we approach the limit (of zero) that tail will just continue to get longer and longer. And by “indefinite” I do not mean “forever.” I mean that there’s no definite date that the ‘mainframe industry‘ will end— IBM hasn’t published any roadmap to end their use, and many institutional users are happy making few changes to business operations.
- Aloha 9y agoNew workloads do come to mainframes - but they look like an easy way to virtualize a large number of linux boxes now.