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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/17/2022 5:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

As an illustration: Fujitsu will stop selling mainframes
in 2030 and stop support in 2035.

https://www.pcgamer.com/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-when-steam-accepted-bitcoin-for-payments-says-gabe-newell/

(and they are also ditching Solaris/Sparc in 2029 and 2034)

Arne