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> Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed, terminal time was precious, and mainframes were often turned off outside business hour
by mycall 7y ago
> Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed, terminal time was precious, and mainframes were often turned off outside business hours.
Sounds very cloud
- closeparen 7y agoAzure Stack Hub and AWS Outposts are both fairly mainframe-like: you rent racks for your physical premises that are essentially opaque to you, managed by the cloud provider, and bill according to usage.
- p_l 7y agoCloud is return of the "computer centre" model of old, similarly billed by usage and with various level of vendors services provided.
- WorldMaker 7y agoWhich is why everyone should be laughing at IBM Cloud right now for not succeeding that well at IBM's original business model. ;)