6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
7:41 p.m.
On 04/06/2013 02:22 PM, MG wrote:
While I generally like The Register, they're reporting on things that are
seen out in the wild everywhere, things that are trendy, and things that are
used to deliver Java web services. Mainframes are not trendy...they just
keep the world going 'round. While some companies (like web hosting
companies) loudly tout what they run, most banks, hospitals, etc generally do
not.
If they were no longer profitable, or in demand, they'd no longer be available.
Most of the people who have been proclaiming "mainframes are dead!" for the
past, oh THIRTY YEARS are the ones selling other types of systems. I, at
least, have been around this particular block before...so have many of the
other old-timers on this list.
They seem
to be doing ok.
Not according to the Register. Okay, fair is fair, I think IBM
and some other (favorable) sources may claim otherwise. I keep on stumbling over mainframes everywhere,
they're just so
damn common. Everybody is also talking about them in schools,
businesses and so forth.
Nobody likes a smartass. Just FYI.
But either way, that's the case in my town. There's more mainframe work
here than in any other technical business. I actually thought of moving into
that line of work just for job availability, but it turns out I didn't need
to because I found other work (which was more "up my alley", so to speak)
very quickly.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA