Mainframe Job Sites in the USA and the UK

There are signs that the mainframe job market is starting to pick up pace - contract and permanent. I believe there are fundamentals at work here - the aging, greying, bits falling off mainframe workforce are starting to retire in large numbers without the youth coming in to fill their shoes This is coupled with a resurgence of the mainframe as central to the new Enterprise IT architectures. SOA, Business Integration, virtualization and the zAAP, ZIIP, IFL and hipersocket world we inhabit is making IBM zSeries z/OS systems, DB2 DBA, and mainframe application development skills more and more lucrative. If you are a mainframe professional or someone thinking of switching over to mainframe (like I say I think now is a good time) then there is a comprehensive list of US and UK online IT jobsites at http://www.mainframe-upgrade.com/computer-job-sites.php . To read more on Enterprise Strategy to combat the aging mainframe workforce problem see my recent article "The Mainframe Skills Shortage - Train Your Way Out"

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SOA and the mainframe

So, SOA – Service Orientated Architecture - its now a pretty common term bandied around at coffee machines and canteens and IT professionals are realizing that its happening. Probably slowly in a company near you , but happening all the same. The SOA concept has grown out of the MI and Data Warehousing revolutions of the recent past and is the transactional equivalent, i.e. Enterprise wide Browsing is now moving into Edit mode! as companies start to create services and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) that snap together like lego into Business Processes. It is IT evolution and natural selection will pick off the weak as usual. Enterprises have to do something to get from A. inflexible, complex multiple IT systems with a monolithic mainframe backbone that’s even more inflexible, to B. flexible business process across a manageable (perhaps virtual) set of IT systems with the Mainframe opened up (still central) and fully integrated.

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