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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by mycall on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:39PM (#22844750)
> Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed, terminal time was precious, and mainframes were often turned off outside business hours.

Sounds very cloud

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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by p_l on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:21AM (#22847753)
Cloud is return of the "computer centre" model of old, similarly billed by usage and with various level of vendors services provided.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by WorldMaker on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:50PM (#22859328)
Which is why everyone should be laughing at IBM Cloud right now for not succeeding that well at IBM's original business model. ;)
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by closeparen on Saturday April 11, 2020 @08:25PM (#22845209)
Azure Stack Hub and AWS Outposts are both fairly mainframe-like: you rent racks for your physical premises that are essentially opaque to you, managed by the cloud provider, and bill according to usage.
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