[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Feb 17 15:10:49 EST 2022


On 2/17/2022 2:39 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 2/17/22 14:17, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/17/2022 1:59 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> I'd like to know just who and what the "industry" Arne refers to is? 
>>> It's always easy to use some nebulous term.  But just what is it? 
>>> Perhaps it is a "transfer", as in "transfer your money to us"?
>>
>> It is all those companies using IT. And the decisions they make.
> 
> You mean all those people running zSystems with COBOL, DB2 and CICS
> that actually make up the largest majority of the money makers in the
> world?  The ones who have been told for at least 4 decades that the
> mainframe is dead.  Oh yeah, and so is COBOL.

The IT industry also include those.

But in the big picture they are a tiny part of the IT industry. And
not only a tiny part but also a shrinking part.

Arne




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