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RE: IBM: The mainframe is back

It is good to know that IBM is focusing again. IBM was one of the best corporations at producing quality products, backed by a strong professional support team and Preventive Maintenance. Intel servers would have an equally high reliability rate if they were installed in highly customized environments, and constantly serviced like most mainframe installations.

Having said that, I wish the bashing would stop. We nearly killed ourselves when the bottom dropped out of the dot.coms and we were off shored in the U.S. and Europe in 2003. It is good to see China and India ordering mainframes. It would be better if we would specify the right systems for our business customers and not pander to our biases. This business of my Intel/MS, Intel/Linux is better than your Apple/OS or IBM/UNIX/VM is stupid. Let's face it, the more we bash and hack each other, the less likely the business, science, and academic community will take us seriously as the professionals we pretend to be.

I'd love it if a maga-bucks client advertised that their product, banking services, or research paper was made possible by the well designed and integrated business intelligence system supported by their highly trained and well paid professional staff. Well OK. Maybe that is a pipe dream.

Welcome back IBM and mainframes.

Posted by: pate.robert   Posted on: 08/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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