<With the excitement of getting my first comment I inadvertently erased the original comment ...but have re-instated it without edits>
Like most decisions today, the major hurdle for mainframe acceptance is not logical it is psychological. Thus to prevail a stronger psychological bias in favor of mainframes needs to be established. RISK may be the driver which has both a logical and a psychological component. Logically companies deploying mainframes and their associated applications have reduced the financial risk to the business via the inherent availability and security of the mainframe. There are plenty of other logical reasons related to reduced costs as well. We need to equate this business success with personal success of mainframe folks like yourself. We need to make mainframers heroes. It would be interesting to discover how many CIOs and IT Executives have mainframe backgrounds as opposed to Open System / Distributed backgrounds.
If my thoughts that it is highly skewed to mainframe are correct we have a psychological angle: "You'll never be successful in IT until you embrace the Mainframe".
Recently I saw some PR by IBM & Share: http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0,10801,104104,00.html?SKC=careers-104104
which talks about their zNextGen program to attract new mainframers. This will help raise the awareness early on, and create IT workers with a mainframe bias.
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Like most decisions today, the major hurdle for mainframe acceptance is not logical it is psychological. Thus to prevail a stronger psychological bias in favor of mainframes needs to be established. RISK may be the driver which has both a logical and a psychological component. Logically companies deploying mainframes and their associated applications have reduced the financial risk to the business via the inherent availability and security of the mainframe. There are plenty of other logical reasons related to reduced costs as well. We need to equate this business success with personal success of mainframe folks like yourself. We need to make mainframers heroes. It would be interesting to discover how many CIOs and IT Executives have mainframe backgrounds as opposed to Open System / Distributed backgrounds.
If my thoughts that it is highly skewed to mainframe are correct we have a psychological angle: "You'll never be successful in IT until you embrace the Mainframe".
Recently I saw some PR by IBM & Share: http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0,10801,104104,00.html?SKC=careers-104104
which talks about their zNextGen program to attract new mainframers. This will help raise the awareness early on, and create IT workers with a mainframe bias.
I can hope .....