Do you Telecommute?
Submitted by pcs305 on Wed, 2008-06-11 12:10.In a recent poll done by Dice Holding's it was revealed that 40% of US IT workers would accept a reduced salary to be able to telecommute. Do you telecommute? Are you considering it?
(You can select more than one option)
Pry it from my cold dead fingers
I came across this article this morning. Unfortunately this seems to be the image problem CICS struggles with. We know it is not the technology - more often it is the people that holds on to the technology so tightly that they lose sight of the fact - the existing system that they "paid millions for" is not fulfilling the business need of the user.
NYSE unplugs last mainframe and reduces cost, speeds transactions
Submitted by pcs305 on Tue, 2008-05-06 06:47.At the end of April, the New York Stock Exchange unplugged its last running mainframe, the climax of a yearlong migration to Unix and Linux.
By all accounts, the merger has been successful, and performance has improved, said Francis Feldman, the vice president of the shared data center at Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC), the NYSE's technology arm.
For more on mainframe migration:
Happy Cows
(The uncertain future of CICS part 2)
I saw this commercial on television the other day. The commercial was trying to convince the viewer that happy cows produce more milk and that happy cows come from California.
The slightly goofy series of commercials show the cows getting up to various antics because they are so happy...
So I started to wonder how happy CICS customers are lately.
