Posted by Mike on Monday, January 24, 2011 - 421 views
Like the mainframe, COBOL is not dead. In fact, COBOL continues to live and to thrive in various enterprise environments. In the fourth quarter of 2010, IBM saw a 70 percent increase in the sales of its System z mainframes. Likewise, COBOL use continues, with 5 billion lines of new COBOL code being added to live systems every year. Not only that, there are still at least 1.5 million to 2 million developers around the world who today work with COBOL in some way. READ MORE
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 937 views
This is the time of year when people make predictions for what we can expect to see in the coming year, so here are my predictions…
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 826 views
CA Technologies released a survey on Wednesday entitled “Mainframe as a Mainstay”. The survey was conducted on 200 senior level US-based mainframe executives by Decipher Research. Amongst the results was the information that 73% of respondents confirmed that the mainframe is – or will be – part of their organization’s cloud computing strategy. The question posed at CA’s recent webinar was whether that result came as a surprise.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, November 19, 2010 - 353 views
Information technology is undergoing a seismic shift towards the cloud, a disruption we believe is as game-changing as the transition from mainframes to client/server.
Many people talk about the cloud as a return to the mainframe model, since the basic idea behind cloud computing is to centralize resources for economies of scale. Yet the authors go out of their way to dismiss the mainframe comparison, noting that the economies of scale for the cloud are greater than that for mainframes — and that the cloud has more “modularity and agility” than client/server.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 286 views
A panel of mainframe experts from CA Technologies and other companies discussed the role of mainframes in the cloud and how organizations can attract and train skilled mainframe workers.
Years after the mainframe was declared dead, it continues to play a critical role in the data center. According to the report, 80 percent of surveyed organizations said that mainframes were an important part of their current business strategy, and 73 percent said it is, or will be a significant component in their cloud strategy.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 290 views
Every day I am part of an industry that is able to push the limits and is always evolving. Years ago I started my career with COBOL on MVS370 mainframes, then on to PowerBuilder in the age of Client Server, further into Java with Application Servers and now in the world of Mobile Technologies.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 327 views
BMC published an interesting survey at the end of October. There were more than 1700 mainframe users participating in the survey, and about half of the organizations surveyed have revenues in excess of US$1 billion. I think it’s generally assumed that the total number of mainframe sites globally is between 6000 and 7000.
Highlights of the survey included the findings that 84% of respondents expected to see growing or steady MIPS usage on the platform, with almost 60% anticipating that the mainframe will attract new workloads over the next year.
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, November 7, 2010 - 895 views
As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement
A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down and learn hoary old Cobol, you could land one of the safest, most secure jobs in IT.
Analyst reports indicate that Cobol salaries are on the upswing. The language is easy to learn, there’s a healthy demand for the skills, and offshore Cobol programmers are in short supply — plus, the language itself holds the promise of longevity. All that loose talk about mainframes going away has subsided, and companies committed to big iron need Cobol pros to give them love.
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