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Emergence - Mechanical Orchard’s quiet AI revolution – moving the global economy from mainframe to the cloud

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There’s a lot we didn’t know about mainframes. Room-sized humming beige boxes – they feel and sound like a thing of the past, but they’re very much of the present. We were shocked to learn how much: In short, these on-prem behemoths are holding up the global economy. But those who can program them, largely in dying languages like COBOL, are a dying (and retiring) breed themselves. Not only are these black box code bases fragile, they’re increasingly obsolete. Companies still stuck in the mainframe already missed the numerous benefits of building software with open source technology inaccessible to them in the mainframe. Now, they are about to miss the second massive secular shift: generative AI. For many companies the ultimatum is clear: innovate or die. Cue Mechanical Orchard, our newest Series A investment, and the team already driving this transformation. Where they specialize: migrating the tough stuff safely and effectively – the delicate, complex code of core applications that’s

Mechanical Orchard’s quiet AI revolution – moving the global economy from mainframe to the cloud | Emergence Capital 415-800-1077 Contact Us X Linkedin Subscribe to Newsletter Menu Mechanical Orchard’s quiet AI revolution – moving the global economy from mainframe to the cloud Jake Saper Jake Saper Jake Saper Yaz El-Baba Yaz El-Baba Yaz El-Baba The Emergence Team 9:00 pm PDT February 7, 2024 4 MIN READ Image: 1. This is some text inside of a div block. emergencecap There’s a lot we didn’t know about mainframes. Room-sized humming beige boxes – they feel and sound like a thing of the past, but

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