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Re:Bill Gates: "I'm literally losing sleep over Java" by rusticpenn on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:41AM (#34257435)
The reply was on point and serious . Mainframe still exists and generates billions in revenue. Windows/ Microsoft lost their foothold in a new market. However Microsoft is also transforming into a cloud first company.
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Re:Bill Gates: "I'm literally losing sleep over Java" by dmarchand90 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:13AM (#34257643)
Also the reply gives reasonable time estimates: 20 years. I think this is about right as web apps clear dominance wouldn't be until roughly the mid 2010s anyway
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Re:Bill Gates: "I'm literally losing sleep over Java" by pjmlp on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:31AM (#34259302)
Well the cloud is the new mainframe, hence why "Azure OS" is the new Windows.
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Re:Bill Gates: "I'm literally losing sleep over Java" by rusticpenn on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:14AM (#34259792)
Cloud is not the new mainframe. Maybe in 15 years.
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Re:Bill Gates: "I'm literally losing sleep over Java" by pjmlp on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:20AM (#34259864)
It surely is from the point of view of timesharing and thin clients, and I am not sure if I wouldn't rather use JCL instead of YAML.
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