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| Mainframes: still hot after all these years |
January 2, 2008 |
By Peter Wolchak
Mainframes were once considered the dinosaurs of the IT world, holding on only until more evolved computers pushed them off the planet. It turns out that attitude was not only wrong—mainframes are still useful and popular—but also damaging, as many younger people abandoned the technology or didn’t bother training on it in the first place.
So now Statistics Canada’s 2006 census is predicting a huge shortage of mainframe- trained IT pros, with Ontario alone requiring 2,000 to 3,000 new mainframe operators within the next three to five years. The education system is responding: Toronto’s Ryerson University, for example, is targetting a mainframe course to working IT pros who want the additional qualification.
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