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Even if it's not handling billions of dollars a day... Why fix what isn't broken? Software isn't an end into itself, it's a tool to solve a business need. If th
by uxp8u61q 3y ago
Even if it's not handling billions of dollars a day... Why fix what isn't broken? Software isn't an end into itself, it's a tool to solve a business need. If the business need is met, there's not anything to fix.
- rafaelmn 3y agoBecause you lose the ability to fix/update it if you don't exercise it ? Depends on how much you value the ability to change the software.
- kstrauser 3y agoOne reason is that it’s harder to execute by the year. Mainframes might be fast for some things, but they won’t/can’t scale as well as a gazillion VPS instances. I bet there are plenty of shops that have software they’d love to run on a cheap cloud server, so that they could retire their hyperexpensive big iron.
- wredue 3y agoBecause all the data and processing being on the mainframe poses loads of problems which are causing competitive disadvantages today. As a shining example of the grief: 8 letter passwords.