On 2018-11-06 15:40:56 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2018 03:01:22 pm J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > I keep hoping that they will some day release a > > back-level version of their Mainframe VM OS for use by hobbyists; that > > would be a boon to their efforts to stem the tide of migration off their > > proprietary platform, but they don't seem to recognize the power of > > familiarizing potential users with their proprietary products. > > So way off topic... > > I think the non-release of the Mainframe OS is probably more from the point > that the pool of skilled consultants for IBM mainframes would drop doing > it. IBM mainframe consultant rates back in the '90s sucked hard compared > to Tandem (acquired by Compaq then HP) and the 'good' ones even then were > bailing to other platforms. > > If the 3rd world low cost shops had access to the OS, then I'd guess the > rates would get trashed just like PHP, and quite a few other > languages/CMSes, have been trashed over the last 10+- years or so. > > First time business owners don't understand the huge difference in work > ethic between (the majority of) 1st world labor and 3rd world labor, so... > rates drop... > > Actually I'm still surprised mainframes exist in the age of things like > autoconfiguration ClusterKnoppix for Beowulf clusters, so maybe IBM is > going down that route with the RH purchase? They still exist because of the massive costs of migration of legacy application software written since the 1960s are prohibitive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
