On 3/10/2013 11:59 PM, Steve Conway wrote:
David said, "To me it's a no-brainer but convincing mainframers to step
outside of their comfort zone is difficult."
I have to disagree, partly, with that.
In the course of my career, I have been forced repeatedly to learn spiffy
new things. As I started working the mainframe in 1977, it's easy to
grasp the magnitude of changes so many of us have successfully learned and
integrated into our daily routines.
The key here is risk management. Lizette made the point very well the
seriousness of a mainframe outage. An outage traced to non-approved
software in production is very likely a career ending event for the people
involved, and possibly their managers. Then take into account the
business impact.
It's not that we don't want to play with the shiny new toys. Living in
cardboard boxes is just so unappealing.
I would be far more comfortable having the source code for a tool that I
was using as opposed to OCO. Take Lua for example, it runs on over
1billion devices - phones, TVs, washing machines.
The release I'm using has been stable since 2006. It's not a toy, it
runs applications that we use in our everyday lives without any dramas.
Cheers,,,Steve
Steven F. Conway, CISSP
LA Systems
z/OS Systems Support
Phone: 703.295.1926
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