Re: Is there a mainframe skills shortage?

In article <1175337742.503099.254140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31 Mar, 03:22, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
could try these links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/01/26/anders-hejlsberg-on-
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/visualcsharp/LinqFarm01/LinqToSql01.wmv
http://themechanicalbride.blogspot.com/2007/03/dreaming-of-plinq.html

[snip]

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/010327/celko_online.jhtml;jsessi...

Nice try. I've never heard of Kdb (functional database?) but I have
heard of
Cache (OO database works well with Java). I do wonder what the point
is in
putting up proud boasts of the Kdb performance when there are no
comparative
figures for SQL Server, etc. The non-standard syntax should put people
off,
though. Where will these technologies be in 10 years? Where will Ruby
on
Rails be? Nowhere. There is a problem: so many technologies, so little
time
to pick the winner.

Mr Maclean, have you learned *nothing* from this? It is not the goal of a
Manager to pick a 'winning technology', it is the goal of a Manager to
generate 'all ya gotta do is', blame shortcomings on others, belittle
experience and get out of the project and promoted into another division
before everything blows up... or so some have seen, of course.

DD

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