Stole this idea from @daedalus - the cloud is the new mainframe. Since then we had a few decades of hardware and software portability. And we are now back at "pick a cloud vendor and lock yourself in".

@bert_hubert

Including 'serverless' (like IMS), Horizontal scaling, availability, centralized access control (like RACF), virtualization (like LPARs), containers (like Address spaces), Encrypt everything (IBM's pervasive encryption).

And vendor lock-in because no one else deliver it anymore.

Cloud is not new..... :)

@daedalus