According to The Register, Students think mainframes are cool
Bit of a shock, though I do wish I could have had the chance to play with them at uni… I am struggling to find time to learn much about them during work so it will probably be a slow road to actually using them.
Your link is very broken.
I’m pleased, but astonished.
In my first job, there were 8 of us graduates joining an organisation heavily into mainframes. I ended up in one of the distributed teams, but a couple of the others ended up learning COBOL programming. I was forced through training in TSO and various other wacky things, thinking “urgh! how horrible!”.
I’ve learned the error of my ways now, of course. I remain a distributed platforms person. However, with Message Broker taking centre stage in a lot of SOA projects, I’ve learned much about copybooks, and the benefits of running enterprise systems on servers that never go down…
Thanks for that. WordPress’ “Blog This” links have been behaving funny recently… I think there is something wrong with them.