Re: Is a career switch to the mainframe/cobol world responsible?
- From: hcmason@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 31 May 2006 13:42:12 -0700
Hi Peter:
When I first started programming in 1985, there were several places
that used COBOL.
I started at Lockheed in January, and there were about 100 application
COBOL programmers in one large room. There were also other programmers
in outlying buildings. At that time, PG&E, United Airlines, and others
needed COBOL programmers. Things have changed. At Lockheed, the
mainframes are being replaced by SAP and other cots packages. SAP has
it's own language called ABAP. So the trend I've seen is that the
Mainframe COBOL applications will be replaced. So I would advice to
look at a more current trend. Last time I looked for a job as a COBOL
programmer circa 1999, I could have worked a couple of contracts doing
Y2K stuff, but now circa 2006 such things seem to have gone away...
Chris.
PeterC wrote:
Hello all,
I am in my mid twenties and got five year fulltime IT experience (system
engineer in the microsoft world)
I found out that these days a lot of major companies are in desperate need
of mainframe people.
A manager told me they are hard to find, especially young people dont wanna
learn mainframe anymore.
I found a big financial enterprise which search a lot of mainframe
application developers (cobol, pl1, etc..).
Is the choice to switch to the mainframe world, and lets say become a cobol
developer, a responsible choice for a young
guy to make? Does the mainframe and the cobol has a future?
Thanks in advance,
Patriarch
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