They’ve actually been doing relatively well. Not a rapidly growing market, but solid growth of a core base tied to wider growth in the economy.
There are certain use cases where it’s borderline impossible to move to a completely new system and it’s simply safer to get the next IBM mainframe update that easily plugs into your system and you get high class support for any and all issues.
I had no idea. That’s interesting. Is it growing as a portion of the overall market, or is it just a set of existing legacy systems that need more and more storage/power?
a set of existing legacy systems that need more and more storage/power?
This. Systems that they don’t want to risk fucking up with a failed full re-write and it’s easier to keep buying the latest mainframe release (from my understanding backward compatibility in mainframe system is extremely sophisticated).
They’ve actually been doing relatively well. Not a rapidly growing market, but solid growth of a core base tied to wider growth in the economy.
There are certain use cases where it’s borderline impossible to move to a completely new system and it’s simply safer to get the next IBM mainframe update that easily plugs into your system and you get high class support for any and all issues.
I had no idea. That’s interesting. Is it growing as a portion of the overall market, or is it just a set of existing legacy systems that need more and more storage/power?
This. Systems that they don’t want to risk fucking up with a failed full re-write and it’s easier to keep buying the latest mainframe release (from my understanding backward compatibility in mainframe system is extremely sophisticated).