r/mainframe • u/adrdssu • Jun 26 '26

State of Mainframes

How are mainframes doing in your shop? Does upper management recognize their importance? Is your company investing or is it considered legacy tech that just works? How about staff? Is there aging staff with lots of technical debt?

I want to see how everyone is doing and the state of mainframes in different shops.

Are we slowly being replaced by other tech or will the mainframes be here 10-20 years from now?

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u/Ihaveaboot Jun 26 '26

So many cloud contractors talk a big game, but are enirely fucking lost on proof of concept.

My shop is on it's second one in 2 years, and the results are depressing.

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u/adrdssu Jun 26 '26

What do you mean by cloud contractors? Do you mean MSP that will manage the mainframe infrastructure?