Students think mainframes are cool
Ad attracts geeks new industry blood
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| A personal ad going up in campuses around the world says:
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| FIND LOVE AND STABILITY
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| Tired of being continuously available? Not me! I'm the world's
| leading self-healing, self-configuring, self-protecting and self-optimising
| enterprise server. If you're interested in having a low-maintenance
| relationship with your critical workloads, we could be a match made
| in heaven. Do you think you have the skills it takes to administer my
| environment?
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| [...]
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| IBM is now working with over 250 universities around the world to
| provide mainframe courses. The help comes in:
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| * The creation of course material covering all the basics including
| ISPF, JCL, VSAM and Assembler, that all go back to the original 360 days,
| as well as the slightly newer z/VM, CICS and DB2 and finally the newer boy
| on the block, Linux.
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| [...]
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/09/students_love_mainframes/
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