esst...@juno.com (esst...@juno.com) writes: > Being from the East Coast - I see a different perspective. > Bean Counters only see us as overhead - un-neccessary to some. > > These Bean Counters would rather pay for several less skilled > personnal then pay for a competent, skilled, knowledgeable, > technicians. > > For a country that, built, developed, and cultivated the mainframe > industry, we are being sabotaged.
Capitalism is so broken it can't be fixed; Commentary: Saving capitalism will not save America http://www.marketwatch.com/story/capitalism-is-so-broken-it-cant-be-fixed-2013-02-23 "Clayton Christensen, one of the world's brilliant minds on business innovation, believes capitalism is broken. Needs a fix." ... also references "New B-School innovation theory changed Andy Grove mind" .... as I've mentioned before, massive change in IBM culture started as Future System was failing ... and top executives had invested so much in Future System that they put off killing the effort, trying to save face ... competent people were put at risk ... since they would be more likely to critice ... as culture morphed from encouraging viguorous debate to "sycophancy" and "make no waves" under Opel and Akers ("Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, Ferguson & Morris). this also showed up in the internal "MIP Envy" and "Tandem Memos" discussions ... recent references http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#23 AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25% http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#26 New HD http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#58 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
