The Mainframe Still Lives! 372
coondoggie passed us a NetworkWorld blog post about the incredible rock-em-sock-em mainframe. Knocked frequently in recent years, the site notes that IBM's workhorse continues to do important work in a number of enterprise environments. "While there are some out there who'd like to see its demise, a true threat to the Big Iron has never really amounted to much. Even today, the proponents of commodity boxes offering less expensive x86/x64 or RISC technologies say the mainframe is doomed. But the facts say otherwise. For example, IBM recently said the mainframe has achieved three consecutive quarters of growth, marked by new customers choosing the platform for the first time and existing customers adding new workloads, such as Linux and Java applications."
That's no mainframe (Score:3, Funny)
It's all over, though, as soon as someone... (Score:4, Funny)
(and no, newbie, "RPG" does _not_ stand for "role playing game.")
Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
No, I'm sorry. I just cant do it.
Re:Brought to you by the (Score:2, Funny)
I agree, my low cost "mainframe" is a quad core packed with RAM and running a bunch of VMware.
Mainframes have been running VMs for years.
With more powerful PCs, virtualization is now possible with PCs.
I tend to enjoy virtualization, it saves a bunch of money in deployment, management, maintenance, backup procedures, etc., etc. compared to having 12 physical servers to maintain when you can all run it on one piece of hardware (depending on your use case of course).
Misleading article (Score:5, Funny)
I clicked on the link, but did not see any photos of mainframes fighting each other to the death. It wasn't even mentioned in the text! I want my money back.
Re:That's no mainframe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's all over, though, as soon as someone... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's all over, though, as soon as someone... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait.
Re:Guess I'm too young (Score:5, Funny)
If it takes Chuck Norris a round house kick to destroy, instead of a simple side kick, then its a mainframe.
Re:What is a mainframe, anyway? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Imagine... (Score:1, Funny)
What is with us today?
Re:Still going strong... (Score:3, Funny)
It Beats Me (General)
I've Been Moved (IBM Internal)
Itty Bitty Machines (CDC)
IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM (David Gerrold, "When Harley Was One")
Re:Brought to you by the (Score:4, Funny)
Great! I smell an Amazon patent brewing...