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To: David Semoreson who wrote (12622)	4/6/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

<< "MVS is in trouble. So says Yahoo, so says Motley Fool.>> Only people who don't understand it would say that - if we are talking about the same MVS. MVS is an old term for IBM's main mainframe operating system OS 390 or Open Edition MVS. I first started working with it's predecessor OS-MVT many moons ago. The first version of MVS came in 1973 and it was then called OS 2 Release 2. The day any other operating can run 30 years worth of legacy code and JCL without conversion (or the day that code can all be easily converted to something else much cheaper to run and support is the day it will be in trouble. Take it from a guy whos been there done that, and is still doing it. The end is not in sight. Client-Server tried. Unix tried. Sometime try running 500+ concurrent development users, heavy online transaction processing and database applications, and 50-100 batch jobs simultaneously all using and sharing multiple terabytes of online data and a few gigabytes of main storage, on any system ending in "X" "T" or "L". Try processing 34 million 700 byte claims in under 2 hours, etc.