On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:52:08 -0500, John Wynton wrote: >Folks: > >More food for thought > >http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1597. First of a >3-part series on the future of the mainframe. Also, near and dear to my >heart, they will explore the state of mainframe training in the future >articles. > >I'd be interested in your thoughts, comments, etc.
The article is an interview with two persons, one is the major non-IBM zLinux point person and the other seems to be getting himself interviewed in several publications just this month (see http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=2163 for a different interview that includes Joe Poole, where it identifies his company). Curiously, he is listed as "a mainframe systems programmer" in your article whereas he is listed as "Tech Support Manager" in other publications or presentations on the web. It doesn't look as if he was demoted recently -- it looks more like the article's author got some facts wrong; I wonder how many. I think it is myopic to reduce the mainframe community to the viewpoint of 2 males, one from Pennsylvania and the other from Texas, and pass it off as "the state of mainframes". (What of the females? What of the rest of the world?) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
