HP intensifies the mainframe battle

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Dinosaurs are immortal - fortunately.

1) With apologies to whoever coined the phrase: "Most of IT history of the last 25 years has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good".

2) Anything you can do on a server, can be done on a mainframe - and orders-of-magnitude more reliably and more efficiently.

3) Total Cost Of Ownership is usually lower on a mainframe than in Intel-server-based environment for any significant computing power.

4) If downtime costs lives (Emergency services, hosptials, FAA, NASA, etc.) or millions of dollars (Financial, brokerage, etc), how much is up-time worth?.

5) Universities which shut down their mainframe curricula have recently been restarting them. Many mainframe mavens are nearing retirement, yet the need is still out there - and growing.

6) Homo sapiens sapiens has only been around about 150 THOUSAND years. Dinosaurs lasted 150 MILLION years. Mainframes are not dead yet or likely to be in our lifetimes.

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