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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMainframe skills crisis? (Response Time).(Letter to the Editor)
Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2002 by O'Connor, Neil
My compliments on Chris McConnell's article in the April 18 issue of the Enterprise Strategies newsletter [see this issue's News on page 14]. My career has followed a path that supports the premise of his article [that a shortage of workers with mainframe skills is pending]. I was employed at Boeing Computer Services in Seattle. In the mid-1990s, the parent company implemented a just-in-time manufacturing strategy to reduce the time necessary to deliver airplanes.
Managers at all levels throughout Boeing predicted the eventual demise of mainframe skills in lieu of the grandiose "enterprisewide" client-server technologies that would soon be the industry standard. As a result of this prediction, many mainframe technicians left Boeing (as I did).
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