>Is retirement of mainframers accelerating? Our department manager once commented that of his 160 people, he could only fire 2 of them without getting an age-discrimination lawsuit. The rest were over 50.
"They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-1495 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Moving on ... > > Congratulations Dennis. Me too; I'm gonna go next month. > > Just curious: Is retirement of mainframers accelerating? Has it ever > occurred where a technology slowly faded away because few young people > are interested in learning it? Is it occurring today where applications > are totally re-written simply because nobody knows (or is interested to > learn) how to maintain the current system? > > Ismael > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Wolfe, Gordon W > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Moving on ... > > > Congratulations Dennis. I'll actually be joining you VERY shortly. > > "They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary > safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin > > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-1495 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > > > ---------- > > From: Dennis G. Wicks > > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 5:53 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Moving on ... > > > > Greetings; > > > > Today is my last day of gainful employment. I am retiring, finally. > > > > Since I will no longer be involved with z-whatevers I will be > > unsubscribing > > from the various lists, but I will probably check the archives from > time > > to > > time to see what is going on. > > > > If there is any interesting stuff you think I would appreciate hearing > > about > > feel free to frop me a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I will be > reachable > > for as long as I am reachable. > > > > So long to everybody, it has been fun! > > > > Sincerely, > > Dennis > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
