A fellow IBMer whom I just discovered his blog entry through Technorati is having pretty much the same opinion as I over the ability of the IBM mainframe to stay the course, based on its new positionning in the marketplace in the last few years as a high-end enterprise server, as opposed to simply a COBOL-crunching machine.
I was also discussing the same points on IBMs internal blogging website, where I was saying how I could today consider learning mainframe technologies and feel Id have a secure position in the future of the IT industry. I mean, face it, all the buzzwords we keep hearing about, like Resiliency, Grid Computing, High Availability, Virtualization, .. thats the mainframe, dude!
A single z9 could probably provide enough computing power for a whole neighbourhood of internet geeks through virtual linux machines. Star Trek computing power AND omnipresence may not be that far after all
By: Jean-Francois Arseneault
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Mainframes aren't going anywhere for a long time. There is always talk of them as dinosaurs, but the sales keep climbing.
ReplyDeletegot to agree with you on that one!
ReplyDeleteWhat are mainframe skills paying these days, relative to PC / Linux skills, that the big question for me!