Overheard in the tech blogosphere » mainframe http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard: Why the mainframe didn’t die http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-why-the-mainframe-didnt-die/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-why-the-mainframe-didnt-die/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:54:27 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-why-the-mainframe-didnt-die/ wladawsky-berger.jpg “The mainframe survived its near-death experience and continues to thrive because customers didn’t care about the underlying technology. Customers just wanted the mainframe to do its job at a lower cost, and IBM made the investments to make that happen.”

Irving Wladawsky-Berger as quoted in Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking

John Belmont shows us IBM’s newest mainframe, the Z10. It has a starting price of about a million dollars.

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