Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @05:53AM from the why-in-my-day dept.

dipfan writes "Great piece in today's Financial Times on the surprising survival of mainframes - but the problem in the US is finding experienced techies to run them: "55 per cent were over 50, compared with fewer than 10 per cent of those with Unix or Windows NT server skills." Cobol programers, still needed for legacy applications, are mostly in their 40s. Help is on the way, though, thanks to IBM's use of Linux, which "freshens the labor pool" according to the article." (See also this earlier post on the mainframe-operator labor pool.)

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Re:No place to experience/learn by Mwongozi · 2003-05-21 06:06 · Score: 1, Redundant

Where on earth am I going to find an S/390?

Right here
Dupe / Similar article... by Chicane-UK · 2003-05-21 06:11 · Score: 1, Redundant

Thought this sounded familiar.

Same / similar story on Slashdot a few months ago :

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/221522 9&mode=thread&tid=126

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