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… such a compelling value proposition versus on-premises servers but not for mainframes? Naturally, AWS and Google Cloud customers are obtaining both software and hardware as part of the bargain. Still, mainframes offer full virtualization and could run AWS and Google Cloud services as well. AWS and Google could buy mainframes if they wished and run their fleet of mainframes with AWS and Google Cloud software targeted explicitly towards mainframe customers they could.
However, they don’t.
Why not?
O’Malley goes on to explain the distinction between mainframe and an on-premises server (client-server) scale economies.
“The …

… Does that have an eerily familiar sound?
Similarities in Major Industry Changes
Yes, mainframe manufacturers were charging high prices to customers and receiving epic margins. Some mainframe vendors, notably IBM, became extremely difficult in their heyday. When lower cost and, in many ways, higher functionality alternatives presented themselves, mainframes went into a steep decline in units sold (but not in terms of transactions processed or utilization, as we will see). A similar transition is happening today with on-premises hardware and software with cloud services. However, something that should moderate one’s 100% enthusiasm for the cloud is that the

Executive Summary

The current proprietary on-premise server environment grew out of mainframes.
This article tells this story.

We are at a historically important crossroads in the history of IT. This is because IT is going back to its origins in several important ways as IT began its life in the late 1950s with mainframes and a highly centralized computing model. In this article, we will go back in time. In fact, the first portion of the article may seem not directly related to the topic of cloud services. However, as the article concludes, trust that it will all be …