<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Folks -<br class=""><div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Apr 13, 2019, at 12:11 PM, Paul Hinze <<a href="mailto:phinze@phinze.com" class="">phinze@phinze.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I’ve been lurking on this list for a year or so now.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’ve been lurking for two months.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m an IBM mainframer since 1970. Coding pads, punch cards, tape drives & all that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fascinating maintenance challenge to keep the legacy systems — where definition of “legacy” is something that works, regardless of 40+ years old or a day old — is a huge opportunity for people with project management skills.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since software is an invisible, largely unmeasured resource—I do NOT like to use the word “asset”… that’s the domain of the CFO & balance sheet—effectively maintaining software is a challenge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Little factoids on scale…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1/ - IBM takes home $25 billion in annual net PROFITS from mainframe hardware, software & service. Mainframe applications are not going away.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2/ - there are some 50 major software languages, 1,500 minor languages & a new language is introduced at the rate of one a month.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3/ - 350+ DBMS Engines</div><div><a href="https://www.db-engines.com/en/rankings" class="">https://www.db-engines.com/en/rankings</a></div><div>Click on the “DB-Engines Ranking” tab to see list.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>4/ - Apple’s biggest customer is IBM. <a href="https://www.apple.com/business/success-stories/" class="">https://www.apple.com/business/success-stories/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">___________________<br class="">David Eddy<br class=""><a href="mailto:deddy@davideddy.com" class="">deddy@davideddy.com</a><br class=""><br class="">Legacy Software, Ltd.<br class=""><a href="http://www.legacysoftware.co.uk" class="">www.legacysoftware.co.uk</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div>
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