Re: Is there a mainframe skills shortage?

I like the idea of sliming tea but couldn't put up with the 20 minute
wait.

Re Buff steak - as a pm you should remember that to ASSUME makes an
ASS out of U and ME. What did it taste like? (and don't say Buffalo).


Then we must agree to differ. Imagine how you would do in a foreign
language... would you be any less logical or have weaker arguments?


Fortunately, I don't have to imagine; each year I go to Le Mans and
renew my acquaintance with the French language and the tried and
trusted technique of speaking English slowly and loudly (why is it
that Britain conquered most of the world but England lost the half of
France that it owned?). Actually I try to use French when there and
find that comprehension and pronounciation are two major stumbling
blocks.


But he did not post any comparative figures for other software/
hardware combinations so I am left none the wiser. I can, with
justification, point out that Adabas can handle a higher transaction
rate than DB2 but unless I post comparative figures DD and yourself
would joyfully rip my argument to pieces.

Not me. I have better things to do. I'd accept it as your opinion and move
on.

Besides, I really don't care, as long as they both perform useful work.

Wrong attitude! You should care, if only from the point of view as to
who is going to support/maintain the package when you've moved on. I
do charity work where I am redeveloping a CRM in MS Access BECAUSE the
database technology used in the existing package can not be developed
to provide new reporting facilities because nobody in the UK knows it.


Mid-sentence interruptions are considered rude

Sorry. :-)

by some people... (Not me, I
just find them off-putting...)

I think I heard this speech some time ago regarding BetaMax and VHS...

Good old Betamax. I worked in a shop where we sold an expensive
Betamax player with oil-damped ejection and a cheap clunky VHS. The
clunky VHS outsold the Betamax.

Let
it go. Unix has NOT taken over the World and even if it does, what's your
beef? If you intend to pay the mortgage off by application programming (as
you said above) why would you care what OS is in use? It's not like you have
to maintain it...

My beef extends from the fact that Unix is not a good operating
system, I have 5 months experience of it and can not get a job using
it.

Well, you wisely didn't jump to a conclusion based on a sample of one. I've
worked with quite a number over the years and the general trend has been
towards improvement. Some of them are not so good; some are outstanding,
exactly as those who came out of the Business or off the street without the
benefit of College Education.


The CS grad in question was a joint CS and Mathematics. I suspect that
the Maths may have lead to his academic approach to problem resolution
(manana).




Oops, I should have read further... you HAVE drawn a conclusion on a sample
of 1. Sad.

Gotcha! I shall take your further comments on board re the abilities
of CS grads and shall no longer be inately biaised against them. See,
something positive.


I would stress here that it isn't "wrong" to be uninformed; so long as you
don't start criticising that which you are not informed about.

Sometimes I just think it isn't really that important. I generate heat by
posting here, when that is not my intention. In the big picture it is all
just computer programming... :-)

Pete.

Pete: you post and others may choose to comment. If we were so opposed
to everything that you said then we would send you to Coventry (not
that I would recommend that place to anyone).

.

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