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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Posts

• Have Pacific Businesses been neglectful of the Mainframe in Preference to "Toy Computers"?!

  Alex asked for a discussion topic on this theme.  His opening gambit is "I believe a topic that would raise interesting discussion is the change we have all seen over the past year or two of the non-stop reduction of "costs", seemingly regardless of the inevitable and disastrous impact this will ultimately have on services. With all the focus being on distributed systems ("toy computers"), management appear to have forgotten that it really is mainframes that provide the basis for the modern world we live in. Take away or reduce the stable and reliable mainframe services and much of what we rely on will cease to function.Why don't they understand this and what do we need to do to make them realise the danger they are playing with?Alex" .  Nice opening delivery Alex.  I actually think perceptions are turning around for the better.  It may be happening slower in some shops than others, but I reckon we are in for a fun ride over the next few years.  Oh - and if your own management are losing touch, suggest they visit this blog as it gets more active and we could revise their thinking eh?      Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Posted Jan 29 2008, 02:59 PM by Bruce with 2 comment(s) Tags: Pacific, mainframe, management