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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
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> In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe
> backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of
> non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an
"open-systems"
> background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe.
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> I suspect that the vast majority are being told that "The Mainframe is
> DEAD" and they're velieving it. Hence, closed minds. The so-callerd
> EDUCATORS are major contributors to this obvious fallacy because of
> their own ignorance and/or biases.
Yet another reason why I frequently refer to it as the "publick
edjamacation racket".
"None are so blind as those who WILL NOT see."
-jc-
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