On 4/4/2011 11:32 AM, Graham Hobbs wrote:
Well, IBM could help.
Steve talks about 'young' people. I'm the old kind, retired. Obviously inventing
anything for z/OS needs z/OS access.
I keep seeing mainframe 'retirees' on this list, some maybe having ideas+energy
for new stuff, big or small. They ALL just seem to swan off into the sunset,
likely never touching a mainframe again .. all those skills gone, done, fin
d'histoire.
And who of us are going to spend $350/month for '24 units of time' (whatever
that represents?) on a VIC z/OS mainframe just to invent z/OS software - a big
fat gigantic zero?
What IBM needs to do for retired folk: make a Seniors' Partnerworld, let us make
a case for a project, subject it to approval, grant free access. Is not much to
ask, we give freely of our time and ideas, may even be successful .. IBM reaps
z/OS software.
An _excellent_ suggestion! Maybe someone in Partnerworld is listening.
But, no, we just buy bigger PC's and off into that 'other world'.
Graham Hobbs
----- Original Message ----- From: "john gilmore" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher
Steve Comstock writes:
<begin snippet>
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.
</end snippet>
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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