The developer died 14 years ago, here's a print out of his source code • The Register

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Truth is stranger than fiction and enterprise computing is difficult but not for the reasons most people think.

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 - The New York Times Michael J. Flynn, a computer scientist at Stanford University and former colleague of Dr. Amdahl’s at IBM, said the 360 series “set the design philosophy for computers for the next 50 years, and to this day it’s still out there, which is incredible.”

“This same instruction set,” he added, “is still bringing in billions of dollars for IBM.”
Dr. Amdahl is remembered at IBM as an intellectual leader who could get different strong-minded groups to reach agreement on technical issues.

This is what enterprise computing looks like: the same instruction set for 50 years, backwards compatible and stable. Every hour of software development invested is captured and retained.

Apple's plan to penetrate enterprise involves dedicated sales team, partnerships with software developers

Apple's plan to penetrate enterprise involves dedicated sales team, partnerships with software developers: "Apple is looking to grab a bigger portion of the corporate software and solutions business with dedicated sales teams tasked with wooing big-name corporations, while at the same time working with software developers already entrenched in the enterprise sector."

IMHO the platform is changing too fast to be a viable enterprise solution for custom development. No corporation wants to do 3 months of development every year in response to whatever new wingy-dingy that Apple has added to iOS to defend against Android or whatever new UI candy is in fashion.

You know what's in fashion for enterprise? Applications that run for 25 years without rebooting the hardware. Read about it in Fortress Rochester.