> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file > > My post provoked a good many responses, and I am happy thagt > it did so. > > What is interesting about them is that the arguments against my view, > many of them cogent, were bureaucratic, not technical. > > One reason why mainframe shops are being supplanted by less effective > and in particular less reliable technology is that they are usually > much older and thus organizationally senescent too. They are managed > for the most part by people who either 1) never understood the > technology or, worse, 2) understood it well circa 1975. > > In the upshot these shops are bureaucratic, technically inadequate, > shy of innovation, and risk-averse in general. The technology is not > obsolete; the culture is, irretrievably so I fear. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
Curiously, around here, the "open system" arena is becoming as bureaucratic and "risk adverse" as anything in the z area. And the "Windows weenies" are becoming frustrated as well. Gone are the cowboy, shoot from the hip, days. Long gone are the days of getting the newest and glitziest hardware and software. Now, for everybody and everything, it is "money, money, money". Strange that this company is "leading edge" in this. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
