This is amazing surprise to someone like me who has spent entire career with distributed enterprise systems. The mainframe, this dinosaur, this centralized soon-to-be-dead computing platform is becoming the king of the distributed world. Of course in addition to being the king of the datacenter from the workload perspective. The arrival of technologies like z/Linux or Java to the mainframe world definitely caused a revolution and changed the game completely.
In the early nineties, when I was searching for something new and unique to do at school I had decided for CORBA. It was new, promising, interesting, cool. And this decision definitely determined many things that happened to me later – the postgraduate fun, Systinet web services adventure, and so on. My advice to college students? Consider mainframes – they became new again and will make you special! Check this press release
and the video below!
