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1. I do not believe "other platforms" are &favoriteexpletive. 2. I am not arrogant and certainly not blind. 3. I am not responsible for the mainframe market share situation. I neither buy nor sell mainframes. 4. I have heard the costs of hardware and software, but I still believe arrogance is no cost. 5. I do understand the competition (&favoriteexpletive). 6. Recent young graduates are free to work on any platform of their choosing. Undoubtedly the market influences their choices. 7. I do believe the learning curve for Novell, circa 1995, was orders of magnitude less than zOS + subsystems, circa 1995. So fast forward 12 years, "is learning to be a PC based network "sysprog" more difficult than zOS, less so, or about the same? Please note, final question is posed without beliefs, opinions, standpoints, political biases, or prejudices. I reserve the right to invoke arrogance at some later date. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 4:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How difficult would it be for a SYSPROG ? (was RE: Mainframe Data Center Permanant Shutdown Procedure Needed) On Mon, 7 May 2007 10:00:44 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Windows nowadays doesn't need to be rebooted so frequently and - last >but not least - it is not the only PC-server system. > >So, I think we're laughing at our idea of PC-world, not reality. >It's not good to underestimate the competition. Exactly :believing other platforms are sh.. is one of the reasons we have difficulties to get young graduates to work in mainframe It is arrogance from the blind and this is why mainframe is losing it's part of the market day after day . The costs in hardware , in software and in arrogance will kill us ! Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
