On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:10:06 -0500, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote:
>In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe >backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of >non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an "open-systems" >background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. > I agree 100%, but that may only be because many of the people I've worked with over the years have either thought their mainframe jobs might go away or actually were going away. If all the airline magazines pronounced wintel or *nix was dead or would be dead by the year 2020, I think you might find the same thing. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
