I believe many of you, especially colleagues from Europe, have visited IBM Montpellier centre. Surprisingly, I’ve never been to Montpellier before. However, when I received the invitation to IBM zStudy 2023, I instantly decided to attend. Every mainframer owes it to themselves to visit one of the mainframe’s revered sites. Besides, experiencing the Indian summer in the south of France is an added bonus. I’ve just come back home, still digesting the content I swallowed last week in Montpellier; modernization, DevOps, containerization, quantum security, AI, sustainability, DORA…. Many good topics, but most of the conversations focused on in-place modernization and skills gap. Stay tuned for more updates on my Linkedin page, and a full report in October issue of Mighty Mainframe.
