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A comment on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017). Parent comment

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:53PM (#19081494)
At least if you went with IBM and followed the old adage “no one ever got fired for buying IBM” in the 80s, you can still buy new supported hardware to run your old code on. If you went with their competitors, not so much.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by Aeolun on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:08PM (#19081932)
You certainly can, but the prices haven’t decreased (and probably increased) from their 80s values, even though the thing is now probably a dinosaur.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:15PM (#19081965)
Which of their competitors can you still buy new faster hardware from? Does anyone sell Stratus VOS or DEC VAX VMS compatible systems?

Yeah I know I am showing my age....

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by shittyadmin on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:12PM (#19082970)
The people who designed their systems such that they could be easily transitioned off of IBM have done so long ago. Those systems now run exponentially cheaper and have access to more resources.

Vendor lock-in was just as much of a problem then as now.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by scarface74 on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:41PM (#19083069)
Yes because people in the 80s writing COBOL were writing AbstractFactorySingletonBeans to create a facade to make their transitions to newer platforms easier....
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by phs318u on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:29PM (#19082376)
> Does anyone sell... DEC VAX VMS compatible systems?

https://www.avtware.com/cloud

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by frostburg on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:11PM (#19082775)
Someone should check if it can run OpenGenera.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by protomyth on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:01AM (#19083128)
Well, our next iSeries is a whole lot cheaper than our current iSeries and quite a bit more powerful. The Power 9 is not something I would call a dinosaur.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by da_chicken on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:23PM (#19082605)
IBM's prices haven't changed at all since the 80s. They're still four times as expensive as they should be.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by peteforde on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:51AM (#19083259)
Sounds like you've described IBM being priced exactly right, given their tenacious longevity.
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