While this discussion has evolved into a discourse on HLLs and library support, I would like to make an observation.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Accenture was Arthur Anderson Consulting. My company contracted with them to assess the status of our technology and its direction. While it was a foregone conclusion they would recommend a shift to UNIX, I was totally underwhelmed by the 'mainframe acumen' of their staff. Arthur Anderson used this venture as an OJT exercise for their staff. Their staff probably just finished their BA and or equivalent thereof which included a working knowledge of Windows and the Internet. Further, the vast majority of their survey and results came from cutting and pasting from articles on the Internet. My conclusion is that Accenture probably doesn't has a dwindling staff to support a mainframe system and/or application. But, what it does have is a group of young, eager non-mainframe people and if they can convince banks to move off of the mainframe, they've got business. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
