Re: mainframe career advice

Mirlitone wrote:
> There are new stuffs about the position i can get: here's the
> technical environement:
>
> - type of mainframe : IBM z serie
> - OS : MVS
> - language : Cobol, or PL/1, or C or C++
>
> I'm new in all that stuff but C/C++.
>
> Taking into account the fact that IBM is very involved in JAVA, do you
> think that JAVA under mainframe could be a good carier opportunity in
> the next future ?

No. Sun, the keeper of the JAVA standard, is, by some estimates, either a
gomer or a goner.


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