From: vlf@star.enet.dec.com   
      
   On 5/11/2025 12:59 am, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-03, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Mainframes were unique in last century regarding integrity, availability   
   >> and performance but not today.   
   >>   
   >> Standard distributed environment, load sharing (horizontal scaling)   
   >> applications, standard RDBMS with transaction and XA transaction   
   >> support, auto scaling VM or container solutions, massive scaling   
   >> capable NoSQL databases.   
   >>   
   >> It can be made to work.   
   >>   
   >   
   > It can also be made to _appear_ to work. And probably will, at least in   
   > the short term.   
   >   
   >> It can also be made not to work, but ....   
      
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   > I've been thinking quite a bit recently about just how bad monocultures   
   > and short term thinking can be from a society being able to continue   
   > functioning point of view. Just look at the massive damage done by   
   > attacks on major companies here in the UK over the last year, all of   
   > which should not have had single points of failure like that. :-(   
   >   
   > Simon.   
   >   
      
   Steady on, old chap, going on like that, about the cloud-computing   
   clown-car, will get you setting up a chapter, cluster node of the VMS   
   Generations group, tout suite, stat! :-)   
      
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