The referenced wikidot URL calling itself a "List of all companies" with
mainframes is highly wishful thinking, as it appears to rely on
voluntary contributions to its list I notice there is only one company
listed for all of AR (in Little Rock). With my incomplete knowledge, I
can easily think of four just in the NW quadrant of AR that aren't
listed, so at this point the list is clearly very "partial" and hardly
close to "all".
JC Ewing
On 02/13/2013 11:26 AM, Ken Porowski wrote:
One of the comments on that article left this link
http://mainframes.wikidot.com/ which claims to be a partial listing of
all Mainframe shops in the world.
Ken
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of John McKown
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
http://www.itworld.com/career/341879/cobol-will-outlive-us-all
<quote>
...
The reason that I'm telling you about COBOL is that I predict that over
the next few years, new COBOL programmers are going to be in high demand
and very possibly paid a premium for their efforts. Generally speaking,
the COBOL programming skill set resides in baby boomers that have been
programming in COBOL their entire career. The issue is that these baby
boomers have begun retiring in enormous numbers. Additionally, new
college recruits have neither the skill set nor the interest in
replacing them. The problem for companies employing these COBOL
programmers is that if the software stops, so does the company.
</quote>
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John McKown
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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