Re: Is there a mainframe skills shortage?


"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"gary drummond" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank Swarbrick wrote:
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Frank


Very interesting article, with more meat in it than the various FUD being
released about the "legacy" environment. A few of the links on the same
page also bring a little more *sanity* to a discussion on mainframe
skills.

I guess you define "meat" as "That with which I agree"? :-)

I thought it was distinctly vegetarian and have posted my reasons for
thinking so, in this thread...:-)


I agree that much, if not most, activity is in replacing the mainframe OS
with Linux, or other Unix-like OS, even on the existing hardware in some
cases.

So why are people doing that? Are they stupid? Uninformed? Listening to
Salesmen? What...?

Could it be that they actually get a better cost performance ratio by
doing so...? Nah... never...!


Oh, indeed yes.
Ever looked at top500.org ?
A lot of those are using Linux or derivatives.
And these days, with blades, it is, from the maintenance point of view,
no contest.
And with 2/4 (and more) processor cores in PC's and blades, the
"mainframe", as nominally known, is somewhat dead.

Roger

Roger


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