I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long Steve: I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long time. Apparently, the work 'plan' is a 4 letter word.... Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: Steve Comstock <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 4:57:41 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher 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. > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "Givens, Dennis W."<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 4:29:30 PM > 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. > -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
