@article{Sagers_Ball_Hosack_Twitchell_Wallace_2018, title={The Mainframe Is Dead. Long Live the Mainframe!}, volume={2}, url={https://www.aes-journal.com/index.php/ais-tes/article/view/6}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 2"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Many have predicted the death of the mainframe over the last 10 to 20 years, yet it is still is a large part of enterprise computing today. Companies not only use the mainframe for “legacy” applications, but are also developing new ap- plications for mainframes, resulting in a rise in mainframe sales. These increases, along with an aging mainframe work- force and academia’s move away from mainframe-related curricula and courses, has resulted in a shortage of workers trained in mainframe applications. In this paper we report on a U.S.-based survey of industry and academia that con-firms the existence of this problem. We conclude with some possible future research directions to explore as possible so- lutions to this potential dilemma.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>}, number={1}, journal={AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems}, author={Sagers, Glen and Ball, Kathleen and Hosack, Bryan and Twitchell, Doug and Wallace, David}, year={2018}, month={Aug.} }