SOA filling the Gaps

I started my career in the seventies, working as a programmer for a Governmental Service Bureau providing service to most of the public sector organizations in my country. We used IBM 360 Mainframes with MVT Operating System . The V  did not stand for Virtual  (There was no Virtual Storage   support), but  stood for Variable, because it was an Opertaing System capable of managing  Variable length partitions. MVT predecessor  SVS ( Single Virtual  Storage ), was followed by MVS  (Multiple Virtual Storages) Current Mainframe Operating Systems are based upon MVS. ON 1995 it was extended and brnaded as  OS/390 . OS/390 was replaced by  z/OS   Operating System. In the 1990s many people believed that    "the Mainframe is dead".   However, the Mainframe is still a v aluable and profitable asset for IBM, used by many large enterprises.   On J uly 22 2010,  IBM announced the new z-E...