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At the very least they won’t require the physical presence of a mainframe and that’s something.
by ffdjjjffjj 7y ago
At the very least they won’t require the physical presence of a mainframe and that’s something.
- blhack 7y agoAn as/400 can be about the size of a normal desktop case.
- williamdclt 7y agoI don't think that's the point. Whether the machine is small or big, the physical presence is the pain point
- lumost 7y agowill our clouds be running in 30-40 years? will they expose the same APIs?. There is a hidden pro that there will be a maximum "unnattended" lifetime to a lot of todays software.
- snovv_crash 7y agoNo, instead you depend on AWS to not change their API for 40 years. I'm not sure it's an improvement.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThey will require different cloud providers to still provide the same interfaces. Good luck with that. You also need different package repositories to still work. I think a mainframe is a safer bet.
- rodgerd 7y agoThe upside is that having to tweak things every 5 years (say) will probably make it less likely that things will just work for decades, until they collapse in a screaming heap.
- Avamander 7y agoIt feels to me that a system that doesn't tolerate massive technical debt is a better system. I think the same phenomena exists with Linux and dynamic linking. Linux is incredibly less crufty than Windows because userspace compatibility isn't so long-lasting, APIs can be deprecated, garbage removed.
- otterley 7y agoMainframes are now often running as VMs these days.