I'm not sure why this turned into another OCO debate, but attempting to return to Tim's original post:
I think we - as a community - do two things rather poorly: 1) Tell people how z/OS and its subsystems can participate really well in modern application styles. 2) Make 1) even truer than it is. I won't single out examples. Maybe these are BOTH IBM's responsibility. Maybe not. There is a 3), of course: 3) We - as PEOPLE - are less good than some others about portraying mainframe folks as a vibrant COMMUNITY. There are some notable exceptions, of course. For example, many of us express ourselves in 140 characters or fewer on a regular basis. :-) When I present on this stuff inside IBM I normally add a few swear words. Especially around Point 3. I'll spare you those here. :-) To me it's quite frustrating. Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter ID: MartinPacker "They're figuring out that collaboration isn't a productivity hit, it makes them smarter." Sam Palmisano on BlogCentral, 26 November 2008 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
