Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 350 views
While legacy applications are a core part of any data center, they can be inflexible, costly and impede company growth. Baby boomers, the creators and keepers of these legacy applications, are set to begin retiring next year – taking their legacy application wisdom with them. What can CIOs do today to help prepare for this transition? How can they turn this challenge to a unique opportunity for their organizations?
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Posted by Mike on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 181 views
If you are an aging programmer, you have likely seen and/or programmed in COBOL at some point in your life. Indeed, most baby boomers learned COBOL as a first, second, or third language as they began their programming careers. Still, most of us think of COBOL as a dead language that is in the process of being replaced in business.
But is it?
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 316 views
When Giorgos Tsapepas started as an intern at IBM in 2002, he had never used a mainframe. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the university he attended in upstate New York, there was no instruction in handling the powerful machines that tackle complicated computing tasks for such industries as finance and health care. Now a mainframe expert, Tsapepas had to learn his specialty on the job.
Teaching mainframe skills is out of vogue at many universities with the advent of newer approaches to solving the biggest computing challenges. At the same time, many of the engineers capable of tinkering with the refrigerator-sized machines are nearing retirement. The average age of mainframe workers is 55 to 60, according to Dayton Semerjian, a senior vice-president at CA Technologies (CA), the second-largest maker of software for mainframe computers after IBM. “The big challenge with the mainframe is that the group that has worked on it—the Baby Boomers—is retiring,” Semerjian says. “The demographics are inescapable. If this isn’t addressed, it will be trouble for the platform.”
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