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by Rochus 1155 days ago
> It is a game of inertia & historical baggage

New is not always better, especially if your company essentially depends on high availabilty and security of their core systems

> more reliable & cheaper system using x86/ARM

The hardware is just a single aspect of reliability and total cost of ownership, not even the most important one.

> It's not impossible to teach GenZ to write COBOL

Not even Java or C++ as it seems.