Sentence examples for comfortable mainframe from inspiring English sources

"We're in the storage business but have redefined it from mainframes to Unix and NT systems and increasingly to software," says EMC Chief Executive Michael Ruettgers, 55. "Under [Japanese-style] consensus management we probably wouldn't have taken on the high risk of open systems, given that we already had a comfortable mainframe business".

"It's the sunken cost fallacy," he argues, where IT departments feel more comfortable supporting old mainframes and enterprise software instead of supporting their company's business strategy.

After all, the mainframe is still thriving.

The mainframe division, he said, is healthy.

I don't have a mainframe.

On the mainframe you couldn't scroll.

(Try to find "enzyme" or "mainframe").

Nearly a decade ago, fearing that its mainframe business would wither if retiring mainframe engineers were not replaced, I.B.M. went out to universities, advocating for mainframe courses and offering support.

"Our mainframe was buckling under the load," Gaskins says.

In 1977, the R.N.C. acquired a mainframe computer, while the D.N.C. got its own mainframe in the eighties.

He derided the mainframe diehards as "numbskulls" and "data Nazis".