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Consider: older company moving stuff to azure, google, Amazon from private/colo data center. The Linux stuff moved. The as/400 and related mid-range mainframe l
by scrubs 5y ago
Consider: older company moving stuff to azure, google, Amazon from private/colo data center. The Linux stuff moved. The as/400 and related mid-range mainframe left. What does a prudent company do with it?
- brian_herman 5y agoKeep the drives and sell the hardware on ebay? They command a pretty good price still.
- rbanffy 5y ago> What does a prudent company do with it? iSeries (what they call the AS/400 these days) is not going anywhere soon. You can even get one from the IBM Cloud if you want to go cloud with yours. If you don't, you can still upgrade them. You can still run anything a first-gen CISC-based AS/400 could on the newest POWER9-based hardware (they are just pSeries with some hardware key that allows them to load iSeries OS). They are not called mainframes though. They are midrange systems, the last remaining minicomputer breed. They are expensive, reliable, their OS is alien to most of us, but they don't get the mainframe badge.