> It's not like Bob from IT is going to play around with mainframe coding for a year or so and convince the boss to buy one. not currently, IBM pretty much act

> It's not like Bob from IT is going to play around with mainframe coding for a year or so and convince the boss to buy one. not currently, IBM pretty much actively prevents this with their current pricing. it could happen, and would, if people were allowed to learn this on their own. Mainframes are very good at some things. Far better than commodity hardware is today.