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August 5th, 2005

Encouraging words from a 'Gen-Z-er'

Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 8:49 am

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RedMonk’s James Governor took note of our report on IBM’s hopes to nuture and point ‘Generation Z’ to its zSeries architecture.

In a post entitled, appropriately enough, "Why Don’t Toasters Work Properly?", Peter Armstrong ponders the inherent problems with distributed systems. A 20-year-old student responded and explained how his eyes were opened to the mainframe, that distributed systems are still "striving to have the stability, availability, security, and virtualization found in MVS, most notably the availibility."

 

 

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Yes, COBOL will survive
ISAM, IMS and other hierarchical methods are dying however and bizarre attempts to revive hierachical approaches (like IBM's current enthusiasm for XML) will fizzle out shortly.

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Good freakin luck  Roger Ramjet | 08/05/05
A small correction, COBOL  jorwell | 08/05/05
True  Roger Ramjet | 08/05/05
ALGOL? Mainframes are not history  furl12@... | 08/08/05
Yes, COBOL will survive  jorwell | 08/08/05
Distributed systems  Roger Ramjet | 08/05/05
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