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Mainframes are technologically pretty interesting just wrapped in IBM poison
by mhh__ 3y ago
Mainframes are technologically pretty interesting just wrapped in IBM poison
- rbanffy 3y agoYou are not forced to use the "poison" - you can get them as LinuxONE machines and run everything on top of a very thin hypervisor (which is necessary, since nothing runs on bare metal on the newer machines).
- mhh__ 3y agoAm I not then throwing away all the cool stuff that makes them unique? The poison I'm referring to is the IBM bean counters and lock-in not the software
- rbanffy 3y agoAFAIK, the LinuxONE boxes come without lock-in - what you pay for is what you get and there aren't any monthly subscriptions as there are with z/OS and the various pay-as-you-go features (besides, of course, the maintenance contract you WILL want to have for a multi-million dollar machine that uses mostly bespoke hardware). Am I wrong?