"IBM and SHARE, a Big Blue user group, announced an effort Monday called zNextGen to train a new crop of mainframe experts. The name is a play on the zSeries name for the mainframe line. In the program, would-be mainframes can take courses at more than 150 universities, win programming prizes, become interns under the tutelage of SHARE members and read a mainframe blog.
IBM and SHARE announced the plan at the 50th anniversary meeting of the user group, which was founded just two years after Big Blue released its first computer. IBM has pledged to help train 20,000 professionals in mainframe operations by 2010."
*Waves old tattered resume*
From everything I've read (including the "new" virtual Intel architecture below) the PC world hasn't invented anything new, and is still busy reinventing everything old anyway. The central mainframe style set-up still makes a lot of sense, and all that's transpired is that we have nice colorful graphics, crappy keyboards, and a mouse.
But I won't hold my breath. People in this country seem hell bent to do nonsensical things and call it inovation. Let them wallow in it. *yawn*
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