Tracy,
Excellent link. I know some very valuable COBOL programmers. Laugh it you want, but it still a required skill set in some places.
-Craig
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: HP3000 Workers Chances Improving?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:32 AM
> >From Slashdot last night.
> Presume the hidden cost of letting HP3000
> workers go way back may also apply here.
>
> (I think the original poster should have put 'not' before
> 'immediately'.)
>
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce
>
> |
> | from the
> come-back-so-we-can-fire-you-again dept.
> |
> | posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July
> 10, @18:22 (Businesses) |
> | http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/10/200204
> |
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> [0]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 [1]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.'"
>
> Discuss this story at:
> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/07/10/200204
>
> Links:
> 0. http://www.itworld.com/
> 1. http://www.itworld.com/%5Bprimary-term%
> 5D/70886/retired-mainframe-pros-lured-back-workforce
>
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