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> on "distributed platform", I. E. Unix Linux or Windows Is the mainframe really "more reliable" or "more performant" than a well provisioned cluster of commod
by algo_trader 5y ago
> on "distributed platform", I. E. Unix Linux or Windows
Is the mainframe really "more reliable" or "more performant" than a well provisioned cluster of commodity hw?
I mean after 20 years of optimising the SW stack, and monster xeons and tera-memory and fibre-channels and SSDs and everything so cheap and accessible. Is it really tech or just corporate inertia keeping this industry alive? ;)
- jyounker 5y agoAs I recall, there have been something six attempts to move the airline scheduling systems off of mainframes, but the efforts keep failing to compete with the existing mainframes.