I've seen /r/sysadmin on Reddit lose their collective mind about the news
regarding Big Blue's purchase of RedHat. It appears to me that IBM has been
putting a lot of investment in open source for the past few years...especially
within the z/OS ecosystem. They may be doing it to get deeper int
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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It would be even better if they would send it to the whole list. :)
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-Original Me
My young whippersnapper self (I'm 31 now, but I started my career as a
mainframe developer at 23) remembers listening to the seasoned professionals
talk about Y2K. They told me that they weren't all that concerned with Y2K on
mainframe insurance administration and claims systems since they used
Why do people seem to ignore the fact that UNIX and the C Programming Language
were being developed in 1969 and being used in the early '70s (thanks Bell
Labs!)? I don't see the mad rush to do away with *nix-based systems or
applications written in C because they're "old". Just because an appl
