User:Gwalke1983/sandbox

Will the mainframe technology be no longer used with the availability of open systems which are cheap in the recent years? Currently many giant companies are having their Financial or other sensitive data processing over mainframes since the machines are referred to be as safest computers on the earth. Data has become like treasure and hackers are in the process to get it by any way. To make this data secure many giant companies used mainframes. But on the other side if you see there is a huge maintenance cost associated with it. On the other hand the new open source technologies like big data are easily available due to its open source with very less or negligible maintenance cost. There are pros and cons on both side of these technologies. Converting mainframe application to latest open technology has also high one time cost. There needs to be a platform to discuss on this technology conversion and the inputs from the leading industry techies and management personalities.