Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by alfalfasprout on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:33PM
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The fundamental issue with mainframes is that IBM made ramping up talent on mainframes extremely painful. Sure they run Ubuntu but how does one actually get a mainframe environment to learn on?
Mainframes are still king when it comes to transaction processing but having such a closed off ecosystem has screwed them.
Even FPGA's are more accessible to learn. On AWS you can spin up eg; an F1 instance and get a dev environment.
Mainframes are still king when it comes to transaction processing but having such a closed off ecosystem has screwed them.
Even FPGA's are more accessible to learn. On AWS you can spin up eg; an F1 instance and get a dev environment.