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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Tue Apr 22 08:24:00 2025
    I suppose they still have those "big iron" clients out there, pretty

    Yes, they did where I worked. They actually moved to hosting the "big
    iron" in a cloud-like service. I forget what they called it, but the
    machines reside at one of their IBM facilities.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/1 to Mike Powell on Thu Apr 24 20:19:39 2025
    Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    I suppose they still have those "big iron" clients out there, pretty

    Yes, they did where I worked. They actually moved to hosting the "big iron" in a cloud-like service. I forget what they called it, but the machines reside at one of their IBM facilities.

    There were some interesting products from IBM - apparently an AS/400 can
    run a ton of Linux VMs in their own protected memory space, while
    running a DB2 database on bare metal - meaning you could build an entire
    web infrastructure on one box. They did something like that for one of
    the olympics.



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