> If you marketed it as a "server farm in a box", you could probably get people to start buying literal mainframes today.
Probably not. The path of computing has been directed by economics: cost and its counterpart, volume. There's no reason why any greenfield project would choose to host on a mainframe.
The administrators are rare and expensive, the hardware is expensive and single source, and the performance is mediocre.
I can kind of understand why core business processes don't get ported off of mainframes: the business risk is too high. I just don't understand why anyone would choose to start a new project on one.
Probably not. The path of computing has been directed by economics: cost and its counterpart, volume. There's no reason why any greenfield project would choose to host on a mainframe.
The administrators are rare and expensive, the hardware is expensive and single source, and the performance is mediocre.
I can kind of understand why core business processes don't get ported off of mainframes: the business risk is too high. I just don't understand why anyone would choose to start a new project on one.