It's really too bad. Microsoft is the (main) company that got everyone out from under centralized control, and now they're being shoved aside, hey that centrali

It's really too bad. Microsoft is the (main) company that got everyone out from under centralized control, and now they're being shoved aside, hey that centralized control is back. People also seem to have completely forgotten that what microsoft is doing with lock-in, when compared with mainframes they're like San Francisco's liberals versus the taliban. Not that I want to put credit for destroying mainframes entirely with microsoft, but they're certainly the biggest single contributor, together with IBM. Imho IBM only did it because microsoft tricked them into doing so. It was massively against IBM's interests. How the pendulum swings. And the old complaints are back : "this application is not written for me", "they removed my app from the mainframe !", "I caused a problem for the admin and now I'm locked out of my entire life", "suddenly I'm inundated with ads in applications I paid for" (granted usually university ads or at least from the company you work for in the mainframe days, not so much now), "this app suddenly switched to pay-as-you-go and I have to spend $x00000 to do what I used to do for $100", ... We don't seem to be learning. I just wonder. Will it be microsoft that breaks the mainframe (again), or will it be some other company ?