An annual survey made by the management software maker BMC shows that 65% of their customers will increase workloads on mainframes and maintain the plattform for the long-term. As I’ve believed for many years the future for the mainframe is bright and in this survey a majority of IT managers report that they will not only continue to use the systems for legacy applications but start moving new workloads that could benefit from the mainframe’s availability and scalability onto the plattform.

In the same survey nearly 75% reported that the availability advantages the mainframe offers makes a difference to their environment and 65% said that the mainframe offered a superior central data serving environment. The ability to integrate legacy applications in newer system through Web services and Service-oriented Architecture makes 44% of the respondents keep their mainframe systems.

I’ve found the love of my life on IRC. Thanks to our friend vacum I ended up in #data.se @ FreeNode where I found this cute geek. He’s the most wonderful geek and so far he seems to put up with all my strange ideas and projects. There’s only two not so good thing with him, one is that he lives 483,5 km (~300 miles) away from me in Gothenburg and the other is that he loves his Mac, but at least one of them is possible to change.

You’ll find Eric’s blog at www.emj.se.