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Just last week, DL talked about getting young I.T professionals to learn old programming language such as Cobol to support applications on mainframe. This week on on DL, Aaron Tan reports that HP aims to come up with product for companies ditching high-end servers(mainframe) for cheaper x86 systems. Seems like there will be an end to mainframe. HP's Project Odyssey will help companies to migrate from Unix to x86 systems to reduce I.T cost. Under this project, HP will also bring some of the high-end features, such as automatic repair of system errors and intelligent routing of data, to ensure IT systems are available at all times. If this project is successful, HP will strengthen the x86 market and make Linux and Windows more attractive even to banks and companies who are a big of Unix systems. I applaud HP for this project. Moving to cheaper hardware means that more can be spent on other area like IT training, software, security, etc. For me personally, I would hope more companies can adopt cloud computing. Companies can concentrate on their core business and leave the dirty IT works to cloud computing companies.