A PC compared to a IBM 3090 - its like driving a car compared to driving the Space Shuttle.
The Formula - 100,000 time bigger, faster, etc. 100,000 time more complex.
Its about accompliching a businesses critical mission not nerds debiting whos is bigger.
IF the thousands of companies that us Mainframes could do the job with pc's then the MF would have been gone a long time ago. But its not going anywhere for many years to came.
I've heard this argument for the past 20 years. And now there are more MF's then ever and a backlog of orders.
Heres the drill: THIS IS ABOUT BUSINESS REQUIRMENTS, NOT A BUNCH A SPOILED NERDS WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN DESIGN A BUSINESS APPLICATION TO PROCESS MILLIONS OF TRANSACTION AND COMMUNICATE TO THOUSANDS OF TERMINALS ON A GLOBAL SCALE WITHIN SECONDS ON A DESKTOP GAME MACHINE. WHEN A PC CAN DO THIS THEN MY TALENTS WILL BE OBSOLITE. BUT TILL THEN I'M STILL IN VERY HIGH DEMAND.
PS. COBOL will be around longer then the MF. If it was such a bad langague then it would heve went the way of RPG, PL'1, etc. But it is very cost effective and take a bit of knowledege to use effectively. It is very powerful. If you code in COBOL on a MF you know the appliction. But if you are a PC guy and have never witten COBOL applications in a true business environment, you are clue less.
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A PC compared to a IBM 3090 - its like driving a car compared to driving the Space Shuttle. The Formula - 100,000 time bigger, faster, etc. 100,000 time more complex. Its about accompliching a businesses critical mission not nerds debiting whos is bigger. IF the thousands of companies that us Mainframes could do the job with pc's then the MF would have been gone a long time ago. But its not going anywhere for many years to came. I've heard this argument for the past 20 years. And now there are more MF's then ever and a backlog of orders. Heres the drill: THIS IS ABOUT BUSINESS REQUIRMENTS, NOT A BUNCH A SPOILED NERDS WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN DESIGN A BUSINESS APPLICATION TO PROCESS MILLIONS OF TRANSACTION AND COMMUNICATE TO THOUSANDS OF TERMINALS ON A GLOBAL SCALE WITHIN SECONDS ON A DESKTOP GAME MACHINE. WHEN A PC CAN DO THIS THEN MY TALENTS WILL BE OBSOLITE. BUT TILL THEN I'M STILL IN VERY HIGH DEMAND. PS. COBOL will be around longer then the MF. If it was such a bad langague then it would heve went the way of RPG, PL'1, etc. But it is very cost effective and take a bit of knowledege to use effectively. It is very powerful. If you code in COBOL on a MF you know the appliction. But if you are a PC guy and have never witten COBOL applications in a true business environment, you are clue less. (Cant spell, cant type but I love having fun)