On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 06:58:24AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote:
> >[snip]
>
> >An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is that
> >the cost of maintenance contracts skyrocket after 4ish years, so that
> >it's cheaper to buy a new machine than to maintain the old one.
> >
>
> True. But the software running on the thing is 45 year-old-COBOL. :)
Yeah, but that piece of software has been running, uninterrupted
without crashing for 45 years! :) Don't they just migrate the
whole LPAR from one machine to another?
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