Timothy Sipples wrote: [snip]
<SARCASM>Darn that pesky IBM, investing billions year after year to deliver the industry's premier business servers year after year. Haven't they heard that what customers really want are systems that require little or no R&D expense?</SARCASM>
And yet I still find prospect after prospect saying they don't have a mainframe or they are moving off it, so they are not interested in investing in training for their mainframe programmers. This battle is not over, granted, but the hearts and minds of the young techies and, more importantly, the young managers, have not been won over to mainframes. Until the up and coming folks get excited about what mainframes can do and the advantages they offer (and this has to include cost effectiveness), the trend in the number of companies using IBM mainframes can only be downward. And don't throw out the training in the universities program as the answer. It's part of the answer but a long way from the solution. All things have their life cycles. Maybe the mainframe is at the end of its lifetime, or nearing it. I don't think it has to be, but nothing happens without effort, and IBM still has a ways to go. And so do we all. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
