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I worked at a job that had a multi year contract with a hosting company. We paid eight figures annually to lease MIPS on a mainframe. That’s vendor lock in. AW

I worked at a job that had a multi year contract with a hosting company. We paid eight figures annually to lease MIPS on a mainframe. That’s vendor lock in. AWS “lock in” isn’t, it’s “I could terminate for convenience any day I wanted to, but the ROI isn’t there”.

legulere 6y ago
With cloud providers either you use their proprietary services and thus end up with code that runs only in their cloud. Just like with MIPS code that runs only on MIPS. Only that you probably can more easily port code to another CPU architecture.
- Cullinet 6y ago
  Not MIPS the RISC CPU arch / vendor and embedded survivor, but IBM MIPS, the only feature added to brilliant hardware designed to turn customers away, e.g. : "Turning our attention back to IBM’s announcement, this new server offers five hardware models and well over 250+ unique software capacity settings, providing a highly granular and scalable system. The base single-engine speed of 98 MIPS is found on the A01; the same full speed unit (Z01) climbs to 1761 MIPs, up from 1570 MIPs on the prior generation" From : https://www.evolvingsol.com/2020/04/14/ibmz15-mainframe/ https://www.evolvingsol.com/2020/04/14/ibmz15-mainframe/