Hi all gentle listers,
I'm a MVS/OS390/zOS professional for many years (oops more than 25, but STILL under 50 ;-).
One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years following many discussions about the future of the
"MVS"-Platform (I hate marketing bull..it) is the slow adoption rate to new technologies for OUR use.
If we (the IBM-MAIN community and the most valuable source at all) would adopt faster to
WIKI's (as a knowledgebase) and/or SourceForge (sorry to CBT) our loved OS would be much more
attractive to newbies.
I know, this sounds like a call to revolution. But please take it as a recommendation to evolution.
IBM has moved very fast (compared to IBM 10 years ago) to internet standards and has donated
really huge amounts of man years to the open source community
(see Eclipse, CloudScape, ICU and many many others).
Are'nt we obliged to do the same?
It is'nt hard to maintain a WIKI or to use CVS or Subversion.
Why don't we do that?
Even IBM went to uci.sourceforge.net for it's Unicode libraries.
Please, don't get me wrong (and I'm not an employee of wikipedia or sourceforge
and never will be :-).
CBT is ok but incompatible with anything else than "MVS" and pretty much the
DINO style.
Sort of the same is true to Share and and the DinoRing (no offense please).
But {things are changing} faster as I really thought befor entering
Java/Eclipse and other really powerfull technologies.
If we want to survive, WE have to adopt.
No excuses <vbg> and no flame to new ideas please <vbg>.
But serious discussions (and opposite views) are very wellcome.
And PLEASE ignore my bad english (I'm from germany)
Peter
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