Fled? Who fled? We're still running those "big, old" IBM "mainframes". The processor is now much smaller than your household fridge, black and built on CMOS just like your PC. And it's air cooled, ju
"Mainframes are still out there. You just don't notice them because they (still) work so well!" them anymore. You did bring up an excellent point: cost. There was a cost shift, not a cost savings! (w
I am still a mainframe programmer/analyst. There is talk all the time about moving to distributed servers (more unix and Windows 2003 servers). They just haven't found a way to make them as dependabl