[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

[Dave Froble]

On 12/16/2020 9:20 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/16/2020 6:34 AM, IanD wrote:
>> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 11:41:39 AM UTC+11, David Wade
>> wrote:
>>> IBM mainframes are big. If you need one to run zOS (formerly MVS)
>>> or zVM (formerly VM/ESA, VM/XA etc) then they sell you a box that
>>> is over sized, but even so you only get to use part of it. You pay
>>> with the soul of your first born, or some other outrageous fee, but
>>> IBM know that you have a pile of CICS code written in Assembler or
>>> Cobol and no one who understands the business logic so you are
>>> pretty much stuck with a mainframe.
>>>
>>> You are probably using it to run a big bank, airline reservation
>>> system or Air Traffic control. Moving from these hits into those
>>> risk analysis holes you mentioned before.
>>>
>>> However now you have the big animal IBM will let you use the spare
>>> capacity to run Linux. They charge much less for this capacity.
>>> Its called "Integrated Facility for Linux"
>>
>> Where I work they recently performed a mainframe upgrade because they
>> have a number of projects now targeting the mainframe, one of the
>> drivers being reducing the security venerability footprint and others
>> from i/o requirements as data volumes explode
>>
>> There is currently an industry shortage as federal institutions snap
>> up personal with their deep pockets and Boomers retire
>>
>> They are even embarking upon mainframe training programs, such is the
>> renewed focus on the mainframe for the areas where it excels. It's
>> certainly not being treated as a dinosaur
>
> IBM mainframe is a niche today.
>
> But it is certainly a much bigger niche than the VMS niche.

All computing today is a niche, when compared to tablets, smart phones, 
and whatever else comes along.


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