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Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce
itwbennett writes "Businesses that cut experienced mainframe administrators in an effort to cut costs inadvertently created a skills shortage that is coming back to bite them. Chris O'Malley, CA's mainframe business executive VP, says that mainframe workers were let go because 'it had no immediate effect and the organizations didn't expect to keep mainframes around.' But businesses have kept mainframes around and now they are struggling to find engineers. Prycroft Six managing director Greg Price, a mainframe veteran of some 45 years, put it this way: 'Mainframes are expensive, ergo businesses want to go to cheaper platforms, but [those platforms] have a lot of packaged overheads. If you do a total cost of ownership, the mainframe comes out cheaper, but since the costs of a mainframe are immediately obvious, it is hard to get it past the bean-counters of an organization.'"
i hear linux users are picking up part time work as homosexual male prostitutes. they're not doing it for the money but just to get pounded up the ass.
faggots need to die!
i'm a faggot
Even linux machines arent as dependable as a Mainframe.
Can we please get over this concept that Linux is more reliable than Windows? The only reason this appears to be true is because there are a ton of idiots out there installing every widget they can get their hands on and downloading pr0n.
A well maintained Windows box is every bit as solid as Linux if not more so. The losers on here that claim they can't keep a Windows box virus free for more than 30 seconds on a broadband connection are either shills or they don't know shit about Windows.
I've been running Windows since Win 95 and I've never gotten a virus nor any malware. At the same time I've never seen a Linux install work correctly out of the box either but I can admit that I'm not a Linux user so I'm not expecting miracles.