[ale] Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce

[Mark Wright]

I just finished helping A customer get off their OS 390 mainframe.   
They are now running all there aps on IBM P500s running AIX.  They  
were five years behind their projections for this!

Unfortunately my income is drying up as a result of the vanishing  
mainframe.

Mark Wright
m.perry.wright at gmail.com



On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> We finally got rid of our AS400s here - only took us 3 years after
> converting the last customer to our UNIX solution to get permission to
> do that.  In the meantime we've been converting many things to Linux
> from UNIX.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Watson, Keith
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:39 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce
>
> And you thought all us old guys will hardware gathering dust in their
> basements and garages were dinosaurs of a bygone era.
>
> Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce
> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2010/ 
> tc2010082_274669.
> htm
>
>
> Actually I haven't had to work with a mainframe since 1994.
>
> keith
>
> -- 
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
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>
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