It's a scam! (was Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion)

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
Howard Rifkind wrote: So where is this all going. If there aren't any new mainframe shops coming online where are all of these new trainees going to find employment? When there are openings in most mainframe shops it looks to me that the positions is being filled from current employee

Re: It's a scam! (was Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion)

2006-04-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>there are no top-of-the-line US universities on the list. I got suspicious of the 'commitment' when I found my alma mater was not on the list. University of Waterloo. They stopped teaching COBOL to co-ops in 1990 and all the Canadian Banks dropped out of the programme. - -teD O-KAY! BLUE!

Re: It's a scam! (was Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion)

2006-04-11 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 4/10/2006 2:19:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >One more sign that perhaps IBM doesn't really consider >z/OS "strategic". I became much wiser when I learned the sad truth about American businesses. IBM is not in the computer business, or even