Mainframes for India?

Quicksearch

Disclaimer

The individual owning this blog works for Oracle in Germany. The opinions expressed here are his own, are not necessarily reviewed in advance by anyone but the individual author, and neither Oracle nor any other party necessarily agrees with them.

Navigation

< The second mystery: Terminal concentrator | Heather DeLoach >

Sunday, March 11. 2007

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And when you are IBM and you have a dying technology with a dying (in the truest sense of the word) customer base, every problem looks like a problem for a mainframe. IBM tries to sell mainframes as a consolidation technology to India. Consolidation by virtualisation isn´t a unique selling point for the mainframe for years now. And nowadays it ´s the least efficent way to do it.

Well, we in europe exported our toxic waste to this countries, why not mainframes ....

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English at 17:19 | Comments (2) | Trackback (1)

Defined tags for this entry: ibm

Related entries by tags:

View as PDF: This entry | This month | Full blog

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/2870-unknown.html
Nuclear submarines and mainframes have something in common. The customer base is fixed, your customers base has more than enough power at the moment, and you have difficulties to aquire new customers. The comparision with submarines isn´t that far fe

Weblog: c0t0d0s0.org
Tracked: Mar 12, 11:58

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

The other parts of this are staffing and outsourcing. Very few new people are learning mainframe skills now, and that's a looming crisis for mainframes (you still need mainframe skills even when running Linux there). IBM will increasingly push outsourcing services to India (and Russia and China, mentioned in the Register article) as first-world CIOs find they can no longer find COBOL programmers or z/OS systems people to run their systems (at least not at the numbers they need and at salaries they're willing to pay), Moving operations off shore will hide the problem on the other side of the world, and under a different budget line item so the still-high costs won't be so obvious.

#1 Jeff Savit (Homepage) on 2007-03-11 22:55 (Reply)

I think this action is clearly targeted to search for other customers as the life support for this technology.

#1.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-03-12 20:08 (Reply)

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images. Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_.
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry