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by grammie 1017 days ago
its not so much COBOL, its the mainframe environment that is brilliant for critical stuff. My company migrates mainframe applications to the cloud so we find all kinds of reasons for clients to move, cost/skills/scalability etc but the mainframe is a highly optimized platform for running mission critical applications. Its a different model 1 platform 99.9999% uptime vs the distributed cloud approach where you can have failures on any particular node. A lot of other stuff on the public cloud replicates and is inspired by the mainframe.