Milking the Mainframe: Exorbitant Software Licensing Costs
By Derek Slater
Good, but a bit late. And because it’s late, the announcement is probably not radical enough. Nobody is going to confuse flexible with cheap.
The so-called new economy is nothing if not transaction-heavy, and in many respects mainframes are still the most attractive platform for that sort of processing work. If the software were to become dramatically cheaper, I think we would see a bonafide mainframe revival. If not, well, I think the remaining cash cows are mighty tired of being milked.
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