I don't think there is much fear about the platform going away (at some companies perhaps but not on a wide scale). I don't think that from an IBM perspective that the mainframe has lost 85% of its customers in the last 15 years. The mainframe is clearly struggling to attract new workloads (though there is some momentum in SOA and zLinux) but most mainframe customers are steadily growing MIPS from existing workloads and some are trying to make it more strategic.
About the education outreach program - here is a link on IBM's site that talks about how they are trying to influence course work in colleges: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/us/en/university/scholars/products/zseries/ The future may not be as bright as we'd all like it to be, but its bright enough to get us by. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim McAlpine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: "Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics" > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:00:33 +0100 > > > Sorry, I obviously didn't pay enough attention to the original post and I'm > glad to hear of some young blood coming in to the profession. I just hope > that the platform is around long enough for your new recruit to continue > working in it. > > BTW did you see the picture of the sysprog in the redbook. About a similar > amount of grey hair as myself. I wonder if that was deliberate. > > Jim McAlpine > > <<Just for the record, we just hired a 23 year old sysprog right out of > college who doesn't know anything about a mainframe - yet.>> > > > > > Bob Shannon > > Rocket Software > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.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
