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Mainframe Operators Needed
blueforce writes "Computer World is reporting that there's a shortage of skilled mainframe workers on the horizon. Quote: "Getting IT professionals, especially young ones, interested in learning mainframe work isn't easy." No kidding. While I've never worked on a mainframe, I have worked on AS/400's. 3 words - Mind Numb ing. Perhaps it's time for a more long-term solution to the problem. Interesting nonetheless. Who'da thunk it - a shortage in IT. What's next, COBOL?"
Real MCSE's know that real main frames run Windows2000 Server!
Unix is just DOS with funny application names (ga-new what?)
Things too reliable? Predictable? Functional? Secure? Just can't find anything to do?
Windowsize it!
Just ten lines of Windows code will have you scrambling for hours to try and figure out what in the heck has gone wrong!
Add twenty lines of Windows code and you've got a month worth of worries on your hands!
And for the truly daring: A mission-critical Windows application!
Kiss the wife and kids goodbye! You'll never eat/sleep/bathe in peace again!
Windowsize it!
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Even though a DEC ALPHA running VMS isn't considered a main, we had one running at my job for 7 years. It was the payroll system. They never got rid of it because no one knew what to do with it, it ran for 7 years with nary a reboot, and it just worked. Then they go a spend $2 million on Siebel and it was slower than molasses. Because of that, they had to dump 500 employees. Siebel is gone, but that DEC Alpha is still churning away.
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