Challenges are everywhere -- doing more with fewer resources,
maintaining security, management/user sometimes willful ignorance of
mainframe characteristics and strengths, disrespect (different from
ignorance!) for mainframe heritage and value, staffing (recruiting
needed skills, generation-gap communication, needing to be Swiss-Army
experts on diverse technologies/platforms), system maintenance, managing
vendor accounting and billing, capacity planning, performance analysis, etc.
OK, that's enough -- and only part of the bad news. What other
challenges are faced? And much more important, what's done (can be done,
should be done) to overcome them all?
As usual, be brief -- this will be a relatively short article. And
please copy to me directly so replies aren't buried in digests.
Thanks...
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Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected]
3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0
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