I am constantly amazed by the myriads of people looking only at Windows and Linux but never at zOS and OS/390, these two platforms execute 70% or more of today’s business applications and data, the realization that these platforms are not going away is increasing dramatically, if you stop and think for a minute, web services should be deployed to expose the most powerful enterprise functionalities only, and those are residing, and would probably start to multiply pretty soon, on zOS and OS/390 platforms, yet the number of people conversant with these platforms are very scarce (exception being the farsighted and far more numerous and aggressive Eastern technogy factions). Tne notion of distributed computing does have its own boundaries, perhaps it is about time the IT budget stakeholders begin to realize the true values of these platforms to the enterprises.
