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  Big Iron Keeps on Trucking, Part 1

  http://www.groundhogtech.com/news/big-iron-keeps-on-trucking...
  42 days ago in Groundhogtech · Authority: 7

  So old-school uncool, the mainframe computer — the workhorse of the IT world running the majority of today’s global business transactions, the mission-critical platform of choice for virtually every member of the Global 2000 as well as local, state and federal governments — is said to be going the way of other ’60s artifacts like the vinyl LP. Distributed client/server computing looks to be replacing the mainframe as the core of business. Companies are migrating workloads off their mainframes because mainframe technologies have percolated down to distributed systems.
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  Big Iron Keeps on Trucking, Part 1

  http://www.ziomal.biz/2008/03/28/big-iron-keeps-on-trucking-...
  42 days ago in ziomal.biz · Authority: 18

  So old-school uncool, the mainframe computer -- the workhorse of the IT world running the majority of today's global business transactions, the mission-critical platform of choice for virtually every member of the Global 2000 as well as local, state and federal governments -- is said to be going the way of other '60s artifacts like the vinyl LP. Distributed client/server computing looks to be replacing the mainframe as the core of business. Companies are migrating workloads off their mainframes because mainframe technologies have percolated down to distributed systems.

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