Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by draw_down on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:06PM
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Probably for the same reason nobody goes around talking about the BATNA of having employees. This doesn’t make any sense.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by marcosdumay on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:05PM
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Not only people do talk about the BATNA of hiring people all the time, but I fail to see how this is relevant to a machine rental contract.
As long as they have backups, yep, that's a quite possible alternative. And backups cost very little, and don't need to run flawlessly 24x7.
They will probably pay through their nose either way (backups or not, migrating or not), because that's how the cloud works. But well, that's for their bean-counters to count. As long as they have backups, it's not strategy defining or an existential risk.
(Anyway, nobody goes around talking about BATNA of the proprietary, rented mainframes. I wonder why.)