Steve Comstock writes:
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He looks like a bright young man, the kind we want to sustain our favorite
platform - but he can't find a job. And we on this list know he is not alone.
This is the kind of reality we face if we don't, collectively and individually,
take positive actions.
Promote z/OS, get current ourselves, tell the stories of cool things you can do
in z/OS.
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has prompted me to reflect that, while it is certainly true that there are cool
things that can be done with z/OS, I have not seen a cool new z/OS application
in many, many years.
IBM code, ISV code, or the like for z/OS that is cool? Yes, sure. But a cool
new application? No, emphatically no.
To describe the applications I see routinely as pedestrian would be to
overstate their merits. The platform is very largely in the hands of fatuous,
mediocre, risk-aversive crackpot realists who avoid new technology reflexively:
Les courtisans qui l'entourant n'ont rien oublié et n'ont rien appris.
New blood and new ideas are certainly needed, but how to infuse them into this
tired environment is not at all clear to me.
Steve's post has the great merit that it does not look at our current situation
through rose-colored glasses.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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