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Right I love his stuff. I was thinking of his talk at BSides LV 2014 which he gave the same talk but he also had talks this year also at BSides and DefCon. I a
by surge 11y ago
Right I love his stuff. I was thinking of his talk at BSides LV 2014 which he gave the same talk but he also had talks this year also at BSides and DefCon.
I also wanted to mention that where I've worked and many other places there is a crisis of brain drain at companies as the mainframe experts who are highly paid retire out and there are programs to recruit young people who are more attracted to other platforms. There is a lot of pay and job security in the field. I know of one situation where a guy past retirement is paid full salary to work 1/3 of full-time from his vacation home because the company could not afford to lose his knowledge and struggled to find someone competent enough to learn under him that was interested in mainframe. In other words, someone young with these skills would be highly paid and in higher demand at many companies.
- DigitalJack 11y agoIs there any way to learn this sort of thing outside of being at a company with a z/architecture mainframe? I know about the Hercules project, but as far as I can tell, you can only run predecessors to Z/OS (due to licensing as I understand it), and zLinux.
- ghuntley 11y agoYep. IBM has been running a hackathon since early 2002 all around the world as a recruiting funnel to resolve the talent shortage problems @surge refers to. Runs every year, all across the world and there are always great prizes (mainframe tshirts, ipads, iphones, macbook pros) just for completing the exercises plus side-track options to drop out of uni and instantly obtain six-figure employment at one of IBM's customers if you do well. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/education/academic/masterthemainframe/ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/education/academic/masterthe... and https://www.facebook.com/MasterTheMainframe https://www.facebook.com/MasterTheMainframe
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