I suspect that the young lady doing the presentation DB refers to was Kristine Harper from NEON Enterprise Software Inc. here in Houston. She is also active in the SHARE "zNextGen" project to attract more young folks to the zSeries platform. She learned assembly programming from her dad, who also works at Neon as a developer....and she's one sharp cookie, imho.
DJ ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Journal of R&D article on z9 millicode Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:51:21 -0400 > > It was probably WebSphere Developer for System z. > > http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/devzseries/ > > Probably. It's still really, really disturbing to see > Eclipse doing syntax highlighting for PL/1 and COBOL, > though...8-) > > On the other hand, the focus of the session was on > attracting young developers to the platform, and the young > lady doing the presentation was pretty clear that her > entire background up to the point of joining IBM was as a > Java developer. She made a number of interesting points > about leveraging Linux as a development workstation with > interfaces into the traditional Z environments. I can pull > the presentation if anyone is interested. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ 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
