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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/30/2022 9:31 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

And just like for 40 years ago it is sometimes
a good choice, often an OK choice and sometimes
a bad choice.

Arne