Agreed. Although I have an interesting perspective. I have founded a company completely hosted in the cloud and my father is a mainframe developer who has worke

Agreed. Although I have an interesting perspective. I have founded a company completely hosted in the cloud and my father is a mainframe developer who has worked on airline and credit card systems. I'm in a never ending Cloud vs. Mainframe debate. With that said, I don't think the mainframe is going away anytime soon but I can see why people seem to favor the cloud. Unpredictable growth and cost doesn't fit well with the cost of a mainframe. Credit card companies and airlines KNOW they have to handle billions of transactions and investing in a very expensive piece of equipment makes sense. Thats not the case for a lot of companies though. Especially those using the SaaS model. The cloud is attractive because of the usage model. You pay for what you use. I wish there was a way to make the power of mainframes more accessible to new companies.