As they said they had to adapt and join the cheap microprocessor army but maintain the mainframe model or solution. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">.....The death of the mainframe has been predicted many times over the years.
 But it has prevailed because it has been overhauled time and again. In 
the early 1990s, the personal computer revolution took off and I.B.M., 
wedded to its big-iron computers, was in deep trouble. To make the 
mainframe more competitive, its insides were retooled, using low-cost 
microprocessors as the computing engine.</span>...<br><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/technology/ibm-mainframe-evolves-to-serve-the-digital-world.html?_r=2" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/technology/ibm-mainframe-evolves-to-serve-the-digital-world.html?_r=2</a><br>


</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Ali Hussein|Managing Partner</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif""><br>


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