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Well, not just mainframes generally, but if they created AWS on mainframes and hosted them… that would have made it accessible for startups.

• mimixco 5y ago
  It was so simple internally, they could have ported those tools to a GUI. But GUI's and user interfaces are not something IBM has ever done well (other than command line ones).
  • azinman2 5y ago
    I would argue neither has AWS yet…
  • ngcc_hk 5y ago
    The organisation is also in the way. Both in Ibm and for those teams using ibm. Very bureaucratic and like token ring over management kill. Good and have its niche. But murder by the liberal Ethernet.