If the business community would make it clear to the educational community that there are jobs to be had in this area, then there is a good chance that they will include a mainframe focus in their curricula.
Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: "Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics" On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bryan Turriff wrote: > 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. > > ------------------------SNIP----------------------- But what I am hearing is that there are extremely *FEW* NEW Mainframes and that is IMO the real problem. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
