Comment Same as fiat and a bank (Score 1) 43
How is this any different than what the banking system with fiat currency is today?
The mainframe world is not at all like the x86 server world. Yes, it is expensive, for both hardware and support, but these are companies that can afford it and are willing to pay for the ultimate in reliability. It does not pay to cheap out when you are processing billions of dollars.
Just curious, is COBOL still the dominant programming language?
We The People to the government: reliance on unaccountable, unchecked, big data ultra-monopolies for your cloud services is a security vulnerability.
Government agencies don't seem very good at it either, though. Sad state of affairs.
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