Same here in Southeastern Pa. area, Bucks County/Philly. This use to be a hotbed of mainframe activity and I talk to enough IBMers from around here who can say without doubt that the mainframe has been going away for years. I personally don't believe that the mainframe will ever *go away*, I believe that we have been and are in a transitory period where what's running on and what will run on the mainframe will change. The mainframe's morphed personality will be less and less of the legacy stuff and more of what is running on all those *other* boxes, it's just going to take time to mature. Of course it may be the size of a brick at some point but I won't care much.
Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 02/10/2006 09:56 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Mainframe Jobs Going Away Robert, <<snipped>> Mainframes are going away. We probably had 30 shops or more in the Milwaukee area when I started at P&H 21 years ago. Now there are between 10 and 15. Granted, some of the companies still run mainframes - just not in Milwaukee. I know First Wisconsin Bank was one of the biggest shops, and it merged with another bank. So did Marine bank, where I used to work before I went to P&H. But, a lot of the shops used to run MVS, and now they don't. Johnson Controls and Johnson Wax are 2 good examples. I know people from both shops. NO MORE MAINFRAME running MVS, OS/390, or z/OS. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer P&H Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
