IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says

Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by vram22 on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @03:58PM (#40136549)

My semi-educated guess is that mainframes are a much bigger chunk still.

(AS/400 is midrange. They are called something else now, I heard. Maybe I-series.)

A lot of those indispensable infrastructure systems we all depend on, such as insurance, income tax, etc., run on mainframes, as they have for decades now.

So don't diss big iron / Big Blue.

I, for one, hope they have many years left, though I guess they could do with improving their corporate culture and business practices some.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by slowmovintarget on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:46AM (#40145802)

Those z-boxes can comfortably run 5000 instances of Linux as your very own virtual data center. Makes you wonder what inference on mainframe would look like, though you don't have GPUs.

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Re:IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says by vram22 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:12PM (#40219112)

Do people use them for that, and is it cost-effective?

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