Scholarships for Mainframe Education
As I stated in my previous post, mainframe education has been lagging very badly for quite some time. One of the things IBM has done is to create the Master the Mainframe student competition. This competition gives students a chance to play around with a real mainframe, and learn about its inner workings, and why it’s such an important platform.
This week, IBM has announced a scholarship program that is designed to give students a real reason to pursue mainframe education. The press release can be found after the more link.
I think this is a really good thing. If I plan to extend my education beyond this current degree, I will definitely pursue this scholarship and get myself some more mainframe education. Mainframes aren’t sexy, they don’t have flashy GUIs, and (contrary to a statement in Monday’s premier of ‘My Own Worst Enemy’) you can’t game on them. They are workhorse systems, designed to handle massive amounts of data and process it quickly.
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