IBM Mainframe Nine Years On
24 March 2026 - 1 Minute Read
Nine years ago, after attending the 2017 GSE Conference, I wrote and shared the article below. I had been to the conference a couple of times before, but 2017 felt different, 2017 had youth on its side.
It was genuinely refreshing to see so many younger people at a mainframe conference. Not just attending, but fully engaged, curious, enthusiastic, and clearly enjoying everything they were learning.
That post was only the second blog I’d ever written, inspired not only by the people I met there, but also by the far-sighted companies that had invested in the mainframe apprentices & in the future of the platform.
Reading the article again I may have been a little optimistic in the idea there was going to be a great upsurge in new mainframe sites but nine years on it is still the platform that powers the world & the fountain from which all other technologies flow.
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Will Nicholls
Will Nicholls is an industry recognised expert in the field of Hardware & Software Maintenance services especially around all IBM platforms. Will has worked in this field as a salesman for over 25 years and in his time has won some of the largest third party maintenance contracts many of which, due to his passion for account management, stayed with him for multiple years. Will is known for his innovation, bringing new, highly profitable services to the organisations he worked for. Will is now responsible all things maintenance related and making sure that we always do the right thing for the Customer.
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