Oh, yes, but people seem to forgot a lot of corporate data is kept on z/OS ....and probably in Cobol/Assembler/PL/1 And a lot of these big corporate giants arent going to pay to convert the code to Linux/Windows...until they absolutely have to and the cheapest way possible.
Scott J Ford ________________________________ From: "Givens, Dennis W." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 4:29:30 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher That is the second item I hear frequently when talks come around to platform selection. 1) Very expensive 2) Can find JAVA programmers a lot easier than COBOL. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking wh Amen, Sam. But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking when us 'dinosaurs' call it quits.........these 30+ yr olds dont want to know about z/OS and IBM ... Scott J Ford ________________________________ From: "Knutson, Sam" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 4:20:47 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher It is usually where some significant corporate data lives. The cost to rip and replace everything is usually prohibitive and would be very disruptive so layer after layer of application code is built on distributed platforms. Eventually something on those distributed platforms does a business transaction on the System z back end that gets hardened into DB2, IMS, etc. Follow the data! The mainframe is still the most cost efficient, secure, available platform for data of record. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Team Leader mailto:[email protected] (office) 301.986.3574begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 301.986.3574 end_of_the_skype_highlightingbegin_of_the_skype_highlighting 301.986.3574 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (cell) 301.996.1318begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 301.996.1318 end_of_the_skype_highlightingbegin_of_the_skype_highlighting 301.996.1318 end_of_the_skype_highlighting "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 4:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher <SNIP> But I am curious as to why the mainframe doesn't just go away: there must be one or more z/OS applications that the Windows folks just can't beat. Can you describe what applications are keeping the mainframe around? And why Windows folks can't make it go away? ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html The information contained in this e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to sender and destroy or delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
