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I was speaking recently with the CIO of a multinational corporation about technology. We were discussing his plans to integrate technologies across some 150-plus global offices. One thing he said real

By Paul Rolich | Updated on September 30, 2007

I was speaking recently with the CIO of a multinational corporation about technology. We were discussing his plans to integrate technologies across some 150-plus global offices. One thing he said really struck home. He told me in his more than 20 years in IT, he never had experienced a failure on an AS/400. Sure, there was hardware that had to be replaced and the occasional software glitch, but in his career, he never lost any data because of a catastrophic failure on a midrange system.

Based on that, he said he intended to keep his data on iSeries machines as long as he could. Furthermore, he was developing a Windows-based thin client dashboard for the global enterprise built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. That conscious decision to marry IBM and Microsoft technologies for global IT made me rethink some of my earlier opinions about the future of mainframes. Just last month in these pages I spoke somewhat disparagingly about the future of mainframe technology in an Internet world.

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