> Mainframes are unbelievably powerful, feature-full, and cost-effective.
Maybe things have changed in the last 10 or 15 years, which is the last time I had a legit mainframe at a day job, but back then none of those things were true if you looked at it more than 20 minutes.
I seem to remember nothing being included in the base mainframe… when you started to add things like DR and data duplication and virtualization, it became extremely expensive. Like on the DB side, effing Oracle was much cheaper.
Maybe things have changed in the last 10 or 15 years, which is the last time I had a legit mainframe at a day job, but back then none of those things were true if you looked at it more than 20 minutes.
I seem to remember nothing being included in the base mainframe… when you started to add things like DR and data duplication and virtualization, it became extremely expensive. Like on the DB side, effing Oracle was much cheaper.