[Info-vax] For sale: VAXstation 4000/90 128MB Fully Working and Tested

[Dave Froble]

On 7/9/2022 9:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/9/2022 8:25 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/9/22 19:42, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 7/3/2022 8:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 7/2/2022 8:26 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> Very few of the important ones are migrating off and many of those
>>>>> that do migrate into failures.
>>>>
>>>> Some succeed.
>>>>
>>>> And it accumulates.
>>>
>>> A recent case: Fedex.
>>>
>>> They are moving from Cobol/IBM mainframe/own data center
>>> to "cloud native"/Azure & Oracle cloud.
>>>
>>> The CIO announced when this thread was going on that
>>> they has already moved 80% of applications and that
>>> the remaining 20% would all be done in 2024.
>>>
>>> He did not mention what "cloud native" covers,
>>> but elsewhere it is revealed to be:
>>> - Angular for client side
>>> - Java and Spring Boot for applications
>>> - kubernetes and docker for infrastructure
>>>
>>> Which is not really surprising. In the 1980's nobody got fired
>>> for choosing IBM. Today nobody get fired (in a large conservative
>>> company) for choosing above stack.
>>
>> There has been some talk of this in Mainframe groups.  Can't wait to see
>> how it turns out.
>
> With 80% completed and the last 20% in progress, then it
> seems like a done thing.

We in the homebuilt aircraft have a saying.

90% done, 90% to go.

All too often it's true.

So I wonder, why isn't that last 20% also done?  Perhaps it doesn't work so well 
in the cloud.  Or with the new languages.  Or the new developers.

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