vibepaaac21

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   by vibepaaac21 3y ago

   It should be noted that I believe you can get access to Linux s390x boxes in the cloud for not very much money. It's the z/OS side of things that tends to be prohibitively expensive. Thats almost entirely due to software licensing
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   by vibepaaac21 3y ago

   I agree with the parent post in that it's mostly marketing. There was nothing preventing you from calling back and forth from cloud services on your mainframe before the recent marketing shift to "hybrid cloud". Hybrid cloud
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   by vibepaaac21 3y ago

   The fact that it sorta forces you to a lower level of abstraction is actually a very interesting topic and something I think about a lot in the context of how mainframes have remained relevant. If there were a way to restrict non-mainframe