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

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Jun 30 09:31:35 EDT 2022


On 6/30/2022 9:02 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Should have used COBOL.  Then they could move to z/OS and DB2.
> DB2 meet the relational database requirement.  And z/OS, well,
> nobody ever got fired for going with IBM.   :-)

VMS Cobol -> something else Cobol is undoubtetly easier than
VMS Basic -> something else Basic.

But people are moving off z/OS not on z/OS.

And even though nobody got fired for choosing IBM
40 years ago, then the world is different today.

Today the nobody get fired solution is more
like Kubernetes and Linux in AWS/Azure/GCP.

Arne




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