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Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes? (2015)

• garmaine 5y ago
  Because there are institutions that rely on them. Things like air traffic control, the stock market, etc. run on mainframe environments. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
• hindsightbias 5y ago
  Real people doing real work. Next up, why is my hospital’s EHR running on POWER?
• wmf 5y ago
  (2015) But yeah, because people are still buying them and they're super-profitable.
• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  (2015) And the answer is, because they make money. Why do they make money? See garmaine's answer. [Edit: Rats, wmf beat me to both my points...]
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• trinovantes 5y ago
  Programming on a single node is much easier than dealing with networks