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IT In-Depth Tribute to Chris Bunyan
     
A
Tribute to Chris Bunyan (1945 – 2004)
 The
Unsung Mainframe Publicist
and the Slayer of the
“Dinosaur Myth”
Chris Bunyan, who very unexpectedly passed away on September 20th,
spent much of his life furthering the cause of IBM mainframes –
though many of you, while benefiting from his efforts, are unlikely
to have heard his name. Chris’s forte was that of promoting
information interchange among mainframe professionals.
Many
of you in the mainframe world have no doubt come across chunky 6”x8”
booklets, with the word “UPDATE” printed vertically on the
cover, crammed with all sorts of BAL snippets and screen shots.
These Updates, including CICS Update, VM Update,
MVS Update, TCP/SNA Update, DB2 Update, RACF
Update, and MQ Update, were all Chris’s doing. Through
these Updates, Chris wanted to provide mainframe systems programmers
and application programmers with a forum whereby they could share
their expertise and experience with peers – and at the same time
make some money to boot. Like most of his ideas, it was a win-win
proposition for all, and proved to be a major success (particularly
in the 1990s).
 Chris,
along with Jeff Hosier and Dave Bates, founded Xephon, in
Newbury, UK, in 1980. Xephon (the name comes from the Searcher out
of Secrets in
"Paradise
Lost") was to be a market and technical research orga nization
(ŕ la Gartner) – but one that focused, more or less exclusively, on
IBM-centric organizations and issues. In addition to the Updates,
Xephon was also responsible for such mainframe-world staples as:
The Handbook of IBM Terminology, The Mainframe Market Monitor
(now published by
Arcati), IBEX surveys (that charted hardware and software
trends among IBM customers), numerous seminars, and Insight IS
– the latter, a monthly publication, treasured by many for its
eclectic mix of articles dealing with strategic IBM-related trends.
Notwithstanding all of his other achievements, Chris, from our
perspective, should be best remembered for his indefatigable efforts
to debunk the 1990s belief that mainframes were dinosaurs. When
other publications were revelling in sensational stories as to when
the last mainframe was to be unplugged, Chris was busy getting
mainframe believers to write articles in his publications defending
the mainframe. Chris came up with the term the
“Dinosaur
Myth” to succinctly capture his view that all this talk about
the imminent demise of mainframes was nothing but a myth. Those of
us, who in April this year, took great delight in celebrating the
40th birthday of mainframes remembered Chris and his “Dinosaur
Myth”. Chris even went on to create a document called the “Dinosaur
Myth”, which compares the TCO of mainframes to other servers (now to
be found at
Arcati.com).
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Though a great believer in information dissemination, Chris,
however, always shunned publicity and preferred, instead, for his
publications and employees to enjoy the limelight. Some of us who
were involved in the 1990s in defending mainframes will always be
grateful for Chris’s unstinting support. As mainframes enter
their 5th decade, stronger and better positioned than ever before,
we should try and remember Chris Bunyan and his many gainful
endeavours on behalf of us mainframers.
Compiled
by Anura Gurugé, Trevor Eddolls & Mark Lillycrop
Anura Guruge
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