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Part of this is laughable. "Security" of mainframes in particular. I have a friend who does security work on mainframes, and, like, no. Also, I will someday w
by wglb 7y ago
Part of this is laughable. "Security" of mainframes in particular. I have a friend who does security work on mainframes, and, like, no.
Also, I will someday write a blog post about how to get into the field, starting with "at first, grow up on a farm". The point being that there are hundreds of ways to get into this field and have serious fun without following some Official way.
Part of the appeal of mainframes, and of consultancies that focus on them is the seriously low salaries. Oh, also hostility to new ideas and lack of development tools.
Disagree strongly.
- rbanffy 7y agoAgreed. The security point jumped out for me. Still, some of the other points are more correct than at first sight - the author's failure is to compare mainframes with single servers when, in reality, they behave more as tightly coupled clusters of specialized machines. When you switch to this mindset, a lot of the problems we face managing our clusters have mainframe counterparts since the mid 80's.
- DannyB2 7y agoI would point out that mainframes pioneered one of the earliest and most powerful encryption systems still used on mainframes: EBCDIC /s :-)