Where do you see them in the wild these days? Just out of curiosity.
Where do you see them in the wild these days? Just out of curiosity.
Banks mostly.
Banks mostly.
That's what I figured. I have to wonder what is the attraction to that vertical. I guess the upside of a mainframe is that they are vendor-managed. One thing you can say about most banks below the investment bank level is they are fucking terrible at IT.
That's what I figured. I have to wonder what is the attraction to that vertical. I guess the upside of a mainframe is that they are vendor-managed. One thing you can say about most banks below the investment bank level is they are fucking terrible at IT.
The main benefit is raw throughput latency. Mainframes tend to have crazy fast IO busses and multiple redundancy in the same cabinet. Plus you can run just about anything on them now. Used to be you'd just create batch jobs with COBOL in zOS, but now you can run Linux, AIX, VMs, and they even have dedicated Java CPUs.
The main benefit is raw throughput latency. Mainframes tend to have crazy fast IO busses and multiple redundancy in the same cabinet. Plus you can run just about anything on them now. Used to be you'd just create batch jobs with COBOL in zOS, but now you can run Linux, AIX, VMs, and they even have dedicated Java CPUs.
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