Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity

Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity

Mainframe users have a problem: finding people with the right skills to service their mission-critical systems. It isn’t language: learning COBOL and PL/I is relatively easy.  The difficult part is understanding the logic of systems built by programmers who...

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Does McKinsey Hate Betty White?

Does McKinsey Hate Betty White?

Betty White rocks.  I mean, she hosted Saturday Night Live—and won an Emmy for it—at the age of 88.  At 93, she is still winning awards for shows like Hot in Cleveland and Off Their Rockers, where she is also executive producer. McKinsey apparently thinks Betty White...

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Making a Modern Mainframer

Making a Modern Mainframer

It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find people who know COBOL or Assembler, and organizations that rely on these systems often have open job postings because there’s no perfect match for...

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Thanksgiving, Mom and IT Leadership

Thanksgiving, Mom and IT Leadership

Next Thursday, we will sit around a table with people whose political opinions we find heartless or naïve, who don’t binge the same shows as we do (or who don’t even have Netflix), and who think Docker is a brand of pants.  And we’ll enjoy ourselves—or at least make a...

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Agile COBOL and the x86-less Datacenter

Agile COBOL and the x86-less Datacenter

For years, pundits have predicted that a generational shift in IT would spell doom for the mainframe. But just the opposite is true. The current generational shift in IT is driving a major mainframe renaissance—along with, ironically, abandonment of x86 datacenter...

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