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The mainframe is back (Register)
The Register runs an
article by Robin Bloor of Bloor Research. "However, there can be
little doubt that the jewel in the mainframe crown is Linux in combination
with the mainframe's architecture, which delivers an unmatched
virtualization capability. The Linux contribution is twofold. It provides
applications (and after all its applications that sell computers) and it
can act as a useful capability for consolidation projects."
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The mainframe is back (Register) Posted Jul 30, 2004 18:02 UTC (Fri) by X-Nc (guest, #1661) [Link] The mainframe never went away, to the shigrin of Microsoft and all the others who were pushing for the desktop as the answer. The original idea for Client/Server was for midrange servers all linked together feeding desktop clients. When this model was tried the whole thing melted in a big fire. The reality has come to be that Big Iron is still the King of data manipulation and storage. Now people see that it's a three tier system that makes the best configuration for resources. The Mainframe has continued on, in a different role maybe, but it never went away.
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