Comment by Muromec
14 hours ago
They are mostly selling to the captive audience who is 40 years deep into COBOL and can't pull out until it falls on top of them.
14 hours ago
They are mostly selling to the captive audience who is 40 years deep into COBOL and can't pull out until it falls on top of them.
Many of those machines are running Java workloads, also COBOL isn't the only mainframe language, and the best thing in terms of security is that they don't use C as systems language, rather saner stuff with proper arrays, strings and bounds checking.
That is why Unisys ClearPath MCP is still a thing, tracing back to its Burroughs 1961 heritage, security above all.
Java workloads might be easier to port away from but aren’t MCP machines x86-based nowadays? Unisys did a ton of work for Microsoft making itself obsolete by adding a lot to their secret multiprocessor stuff to Windows.
It’s amazing how Microsoft convinced so many companies to shoot their feet.
Not just COBOL, but also CICS, IMS, Java, and DB2 (although the last two are easier to migrate away from).
Well, you know what to do - just sell a system that runs COBOL on an x86 cluster or Kubernetes or whatever, and you'll make billions!
Be sure to allocate me a bunch of shares for giving you the idea.