On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:28:52 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>R.S. wrote: >> BTW: *WE*, the IBM-MAIN group are able to research the number of sites. >> Some of us knows some numbers about own site and some neighbourhood. >> As long we don't mention company names, we can share this data. Even >> anonymously. Then one of us could aggregate and present the numbers. > >I don't think so. IBM-Main participants represent only a fraction of the >mainframe community. > I've worked (since 1980) in the Chicago area at over 20 shops (many of which are now gone) as an employee or consulting and I'm still often finding out about small MVS shops I never heard of. I know "all the big ones" but not "all the ones". I know there are some lists floating around and I'm pretty sure one of my old consulting firms had a fairly complete one, but I would bet that some of those firms and head hunters have more knowledge about where all the MVS shops are around here (and other large cities) than IBM-MAIN followers. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
