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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/17/2022 4:41 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/17/2022 3:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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, when you offer an opinion, please identify it as "opinion".

That mainframe is a tiny portion of IT today is not an
opinion - it is a fact. You can start by looking at
sales figures.

Arne