IBM out there selling mainframes…
Time really is a flat circle.
IBM has never stopped selling mainframes. One of the big reasons why finance transactions are still COBOL is IBM consultants insisting that a centralized mainframe is better than a private cloud.
I can search it, but do you have a description of what type of finance transaction are being processed this way still?
Credit card transactions and many banks too. Source: https://www.precisely.com/blog/mainframe/9-mainframe-statistics
It’s a niche market, but if someone wants total control, then you get a mainframe even if it costs more and is an inferior service to the cloud providers.
Cloud is proving itself more costly and error prone by the day. I’d opt for on-prem, fuck all that noise giving someone else the power
Cloud’s cute until there’s a network outage.
…that nobody will buy because of retaliatory tariffs
