Amen to that! Don't forget the "protagonist" is a child rapist. Holy crap I wanted to kill myself just to get out of finishing the book. Unfortunately I can't just put a book down. To heap misfortune on top of that it's a trilogy of trilogies. (You can see where this is going). I managed to stop after reading 3 of them. Luckily the suicide hotline is free....

Hilarious :)

Actually, IBM is actively hiring mainframe skills all over the board... support, development ... the lot. There are still schools in the country training new blood in the arts of ESA/390 and z/Architecture (not to mention the dearth of training IBM does). Sure there are lots of people getting on in years, but there are lots of young people as well. Also, I don't know where you get your salary info, but that's not quite right.