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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by opportune on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:13PM (#34537107)
How is that different from a bare metal Linux server?
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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by survirtual on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:31PM (#34537442)
It isn’t. It is significantly worse.

IBM is a dinosaur company that exists because of embedded connections in government, banking, and defense. They charge 100x the going rate for ancient tech that’s insecure and an absolute nightmare to develop for.

The sooner everyone drops anything associated with IBM or Oracle, the better for everyone. Absolute cancers.

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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by hnfong on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:54PM (#34537789)
> The sooner everyone drops anything associated with IBM or Oracle, the better for everyone. Absolute cancers.

If the only alternative is "AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, Aurora, etc…" I might have to think long and hard about it...

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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by LaSombra on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:21PM (#34542442)
You can run Kubernetes on mainframes as well as Linux, so developing for mainframes has become easier these last 20 or so years.
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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by pjmlp on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:41AM (#34543304)
Bad news for you, the mainframe business in 2022 actually increased sales, contrary to the regular PC market.
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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by survirtual on Friday January 27, 2023 @06:23AM (#34544876)
Bad news for everyone
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Re:IBM to cut about 3,900 workers while still hiring in ‘hig... by andromeduck on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:39PM (#34538475)
A free orders of magnitude in performance?
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