DevOps and Mainframes Don't Have To Be Enemies

Compuware CEO Chris O'Malley spent some time bringing me up to date on what the well-known mainframe development tool vendor has been doing recently. He started the very interesting conversation with "We want to be a home, not a hospice, for the mainframe." He then went on to describe what the company is doing to serve DevOps practitioners needing to focus on rapid development. Living on Internet Time O'Malley pointed out that DevOps is a mechanism for organizations to create a systematic, rapid development environment in which improvements are made, prototyped, documented and put into production very quickly. This approach has been growing in popularity in the industry-standard systems world, but has been somewhat anathema to mainframe developers.