[neverartful]

There's probably a lot of people who similarly hate on the mainframe. Except in the case of the mainframe (the technology, as opposed to the vendor), the reason is most likely because they view it as a competitor to the stacks that provide their paychecks.

[rbanffy]

That's a silly way to see it. A lot of their pains is that they are trying to build reliable things out of unreliable components when they could, instead, just enjoy the reliability five decades of R&D can get you.