On 4/4/2011 2:35 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
Oh, yes, but people seem to forgot a lot of corporate data is kept on z/OS
....and probably in Cobol/Assembler/PL/1
And a lot of these big corporate giants arent going to pay to convert the code
to Linux/Windows...until they absolutely have to and the cheapest way possible.
Scott J Ford
And they aren't going to pay to train the newbies how to
use the z/OS platform - at least not so far. (Well, actually,
one or two have, but nowhere near enough to cover the gap.)
And back to the OP who was looking for a job. Young, educated,
with z experience.
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From: "Givens, Dennis W."<dennis.giv...@cnasurety.com>
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Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher
That is the second item I hear frequently when talks come around to platform
selection.
1) Very expensive
2) Can find JAVA programmers a lot easier than COBOL.
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