As a mainframe centric software and services company, our business is seeing a growth trend. An interesting observation we have seen recently is where companies who have been migrating off of the mainframe are canceling those migration plans and staying on the mainframe. One such company was in the 11th year of a 2 year migration and finally canceled it and is taking advantage of z/Linux instead of distributed server farms and leveraging the Z's reliability, stability, performance and security.
Bob Robert B. Fake InfoSec, Inc. 703-825-1202 (o) 571-241-5492 (c) 949-203-0406 (efax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at www.infosecinc.com The information contained in this e-mail message may be proprietary and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 7:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframes.. Extinct or still going strong ? F wrote: > We use IMS and DB2 on z/OS today and was wondering if we should consider > moving to distributed systems like Oracle or SQL Server. > > Reason being, we are concerned about mainframe skill sets on IMS and > DB2. Also the news around many systems moving away from mainframes keeps > us wondering what to do. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
