They don't mention Broadcom. CA were absorbed a while ago. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 2:51 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hard to know how to evaluate this article's reliability. The .me country > code, it says here, tells us the web site is based in Montenegro, where the > official language is Montenegrin with Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and > Albanian in common usage. This particular item sounds like it's written by > the proverbial Nigerian prince trying to get me to manage his > multi-million-dollar stock portfolio, so I'm plagued by a tendency to > disbelieve everything it says - which is absolutely not fair to the author. > > I, too, believe the mainframe is far from dead/dying. But I'd like to > know the author's prejudices before I try to evaluate the reliability of > the "study" described here. > > And part of my problem may be that my last three clients ~all~ think > they're getting rid of their mainframe. All three have been working on the > project for 5 to 15 years, and all three are nowhere close to finishing. I > smile patronizingly and make the occasional snide comment, making my > opinion as obvious as possible without (I hope) being actually abrasive, > and my coworkers sound like they agree with me. But the fact the I'm > three-for-three bothers me a little. Could this attitude be more > widespread than I want to believe? > > Meanwhile, recruiters tell me that mainframers are ever more difficult to > find and our value keeps rising accordingly. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* When their love was strong they could sleep on the edge of a sword, but > now when they have forgotten, a bed sixty feet across is not sufficient. > -Rab Akiva, quoted in _The Source_ by James Michener */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bill Johnson > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 11:12 > > The mainframe is far from dead/dying. > > https://dailyscience.me/2020/03/16/mainframe-market-to-see-incredible-growth-during-2020-2030/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
