Name: Anonymous 2015-01-18 0:12
http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/13/the-new-ibm-z13-is-not-your-fathers-mainframe/
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Yes technology wise it's all cool and all, yeah yeah big blue does it again, big data, big irons, et cetera, et cetera
But what gets me the most is the media response which seems to be "the mainframe is back" Where did it go? No where, if you look at IBM and other manufactures reports, they still have as many customers as ever, so why is technology news trying portray that mainframe computers are on their way out?
At what point did we or will we ever not need to make a massive number of calculations, do calculations of a extremely high complexity, or both, at a maximum efficiency that only specialized hardware can provide?
Is this like that "desktops are dead" FUD that shitheads who don't actually do work like to spread?
When you look at the technical reports about the new z13 it is amazing what it can do, so I'm not upset by people who are surprised by its capabilities, I am, but the large number of people surprised that mainframes even exist is troubling. I feel like it's indicative of a shift towards universal standards and if that is going to be generic ARM devices and x86 devices for everything there is very little we're going to be doing as well as we could.
Why did the trend go from trying everything and seeing what worked best for one specific task which lead to lots of technology that did lots of things REALLY well, to arbitrarily choosing one set of technologies, using it for everything and then just running said set of technologies into the ground? Did modern hardware capability spoil us so that we don't have to innovate?
(pastebin: http://pastebin.com/TbuWu6LW )
(images: http://imgur.com/a/z4Vbs )
Yes technology wise it's all cool and all, yeah yeah big blue does it again, big data, big irons, et cetera, et cetera
But what gets me the most is the media response which seems to be "the mainframe is back" Where did it go? No where, if you look at IBM and other manufactures reports, they still have as many customers as ever, so why is technology news trying portray that mainframe computers are on their way out?
At what point did we or will we ever not need to make a massive number of calculations, do calculations of a extremely high complexity, or both, at a maximum efficiency that only specialized hardware can provide?
Is this like that "desktops are dead" FUD that shitheads who don't actually do work like to spread?
When you look at the technical reports about the new z13 it is amazing what it can do, so I'm not upset by people who are surprised by its capabilities, I am, but the large number of people surprised that mainframes even exist is troubling. I feel like it's indicative of a shift towards universal standards and if that is going to be generic ARM devices and x86 devices for everything there is very little we're going to be doing as well as we could.
Why did the trend go from trying everything and seeing what worked best for one specific task which lead to lots of technology that did lots of things REALLY well, to arbitrarily choosing one set of technologies, using it for everything and then just running said set of technologies into the ground? Did modern hardware capability spoil us so that we don't have to innovate?