Rumors of the death of mainframes have been greatly exaggerated. Nowhere is the power of computing more evident than with these machines. For reliability and strength, no one can budge them. Doubters may point to flexibility issues, but those who use mainframes know theres little the big iron cant do without some tweaking.
By Robert Regis Hyle
It is rare in the world of technology for something once considered outdated to come full circle in the minds of IT leaders and reclaim a position of importance. People have been waiting for years for the death of mainframe computing, but mainframes are not going away just yet. Rich Maynard, director of personal lines application architecture services for The Hartford, has been with the insurer long enough to see up and down cycles of mainframes. In his mind, the big machines are too valuable a tool to replace, although like most systems, a little tweaking never hurt.
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