Truskowski begs to differ. FastT900 still makes sense for you if youre in an open systems environment, he says.
There's something else: With the Baby Shark, IBM also is gambling that the market for mainframes is still expanding after 40 years.
People like to badmouth it: The dinosaur is dead, Truskowski says. But things people talk about wanting today -- like file systems, [integrated lifecycle management] -- is stuff weve been doing in mainframes for 40 years.
Like other IBMers, Truskowksi recalled those years fondly today, even if he wasn't around for all of them. System 360, with the big blue panels, I remember from the pictures, he muses, before heading off to his keynote.
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