Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote:
If we want to reach out to the younger set, aside from college, is there
any way to work through user groups and have Info days?
The market seems (my opinion) to be flooded with new A+ and CNA types
because high schools are cranking them out. Maybe we could lure some of
them from the Dark Side to the light....
That's where I think a "hobbyist" license for z/OS and z/VM would come
in handy ... a lot of the high school and college kids that I work with
use Linux and Windows because they can have it at home and
play/experiment with it ... and they can do this without having to
enroll in a class at school to get access to a system. That is a
barrier to getting them to even look at something like z/OS.
I know, there is MVS 3.8 and you can run that under Hercules ... but do
you really want these young minds to think that is the current
state-of-the-art for mainframes? I demonstrated it to my 8th grade
son's friends and they were not impressed ...
--Stephen
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