I previously led a significant chunk of developer evangelism at IBM. Mainframes are unbelievably powerful, feature-full, and cost-effective. You are almost certainly better off buying a low-end mainframe than hiring a team of engineers to build yet another not-great data replication/recovery/HA system. Imagine being able to hire engineers to work on your core value add instead of basic computer management problems IBM solved in the 60s.
The reason you don’t is because it is basically impossible to get access to a mainframe you can play with and learn on. And IBM’s internal incentives and financial metrics ensure that can never happen.
* My views are my own and not those of my former employer.
The reason you don’t is because it is basically impossible to get access to a mainframe you can play with and learn on. And IBM’s internal incentives and financial metrics ensure that can never happen.
* My views are my own and not those of my former employer.