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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by snorkel on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:45PM (#20978419)
Technically that would mostly work but IT leaders at banks and insurance companies would rather pay high premiums to IBM then stick their neck out endorsing anything risky. Renegotiating with IBM is the safest career move at such places. Cloud is steadily edging out mainframes at banks but a lot of old guard IT leads are circling their wagons around old blue because learning how to do high resiliency on cloud is new and scary, but old blue is safe and well understood.
Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by owl57 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:01PM (#20978522)
Using safe and well understood tech to handle my money sounds like a good thing.
Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by ska on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:14PM (#20979248)
It's hard to understate the value of safe and well understood for core systems. After all it's not like a massive migration to a new technology stack has ever blown up in anyone's face, right? (</s> if not obvious)