How many years does it take to write off mainframes anyway?
Geesh. I thought the Deutsch takeover would make things better.. OH vell.
Some guy with a TRS-80 still does his trades on Compuserve?..................
Mainframes still outperform servers. The last mainframe I supported (some 20+ years ago) had an internal bus transfer rate of 16 trillion bits per second.. The I/O rate of mainframes vs servers is of no comparison. Servers “came about” as “Globalists” wanted cheap people with “portable skills”. (ever had an computer issue and talked to someone with a “vulgar” accent)?
The mainframe “cost per user” is still less than half the cost of “open system servers” (which is *anything but **open systems***)
I once had lunch with a man who man IBM a household name..
Oh, and no offense intended, NR. Just I’ve “done” IT for 37+ years. The class of folk in Open Systems vs Mainframe is stunning. Rock solid folk (mainframe). Tattoos and body piercings folk (open systems (along with dark figures of evil sh!t on their desks).
Computers are considered to have a 24 month useful life