It seems something of an artificial barrier standing in the way of propagating System Z skills out to the younger generation. If the same low cost X86 platforms supporting z/OS were made available to learned institutions which are already available to independent software vendors, then we could allow our kids to get their feet wet and hands dirty with this technology... you never know, they might even like it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter x23353 Farley" <peter.far...@broadridge.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 6:23:07 AM Subject: Re: DataPower XML Appliance and RACF Tim, AFAIK, that is a (relatively) recent *new* initiative. For several decades before that IBM had stopped providing free or very low-cost hardware and software to universities as they gravitated towards "client-server" (especially *ix-based) platforms for academic (as opposed to administrative) computer environments. IBM of the 1980's and 1990's just seemed to stop being interested in universities using its hardware and software to teach computer skills. In the 1970's at least there was still a significant presence of IBM gear in universities, and not much thereafter. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DataPower XML Appliance and RACF Peter Farley writes: >When ... IBM stopped supporting computer science in >universities with free or low-cost hardware and software... Is this actually true? http://www.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/systemz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
