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> IBM will come out automagically and fix issues for you when the mainframe phones home about a problem. A majority of the system architecture is designed on pu
by DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
> IBM will come out automagically and fix issues for you when the mainframe phones home about a problem. A majority of the system architecture is designed on purpose to enable seamless servicing of the machine without impacting
I'd rather have a fault-tolerant distributed software system running on commodity hardware, that way there's a plurality of hardware and support vendors to choose from. No lock-in.
- rbanffy 1y ago> I'd rather have a fault-tolerant distributed software system running on commodity hardware, that way there's a plurality of hardware and support vendors to choose from. No lock-in. But then you'd have to develop it yourself. IBM has been doing just that for 60 years (on the 360 and its descendants).
- bob1029 1y ago> distributed software system What if the business demands a certain level of serialized transaction throughput that is incompatible with ideas like paxos? You will never beat one fast machine at a serialized narrative, and it just so happens that most serious businesses require these semantics. How much does downtime cost you per hour? What are the consequences if your services become unavailable?
- anthk 1y agoThat's like toy drone company trying to compete with DARPA. Not even close. These kinds of monsters run under critical environments such as airports, with AS400 or similar terminals being used by secretaries. These kind of workloads, reliability, security, testing, are no joke. At all. This is not your general purpose Unix machine.