On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:11:47 -0500, Ian wrote: >Xephon did a great job in providing this service through the years. >But in this day and age I don't see the need for an expensive service like >this. > >If you look at the open source communities you will see lots of code and >ideas freely exchanged between users. >Apart from the several listservers the mainframe community is the only one >that lacks this kind of open exchange of ideas and code. >The listservers also provided a great servers during the years but it lacks >a structured way in categorizing and storing valuable information. > >I think its time for us(old mainframers) to jump on the "new " age >technologies like blogging, forums and wiki's to preserve our knowledge and >pass it on to the next mainframe generation. EXCUSE ME?!? The mainframe community has had (1) SHARE and (2) the CBT tape (et al) for decades - many decades. (I wouldn't lump GUIDE into the same category, but it did belong in a similar category.) The mainframe community also supported city, area and regional user groups for quite a few of its subcomponents for many, many years -- up until the advent of the internet, which brought communication without travel requirements. "Us (old mainframers)" grew up knowing how to preserve our knowledge and pass it along. Anyone claiming the contrary is woefully uninformed. -- Tom Schmidt (Me a skeptic? You'll never be able to prove that!)
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