Charles Mills wrote:
And yes, you can say there would not be a labor crisis if mainframe shops
were willing to pay and train more, but we live in the world we live in, not
the world we would like to live in.
Organized training is good, but it's just a drop in the bucket compared
to someone getting their hands on their own system for as much time as
they want. I think a key to mainframe growth (maybe its survival?) is
for IBM to figure out a way to allow free home usage of z/OS, z/VM,
CICS, etc. on Hercules, without affecting their paid-for market.
That's how people learn Windows/Linux/Android/etc these days -
everything they need is cheap or free. And who knows, if z/OS was
available for home use, maybe some young whipersnapper would have
already written the z/OS equivalent of Inno Setup or apt-get or yum.
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