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title: Springtime for the Mainframe
date: 2005-08-24T00:06:46Z
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Here is my [latest post](http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/mainframe_youth.html) on the mainframe blog.

> Maybe its just that IBM is making the running in August, traditionally pretty thin for IT news, but who would have expected IBM to be able to yoke the concepts of mainframe and youth together?
> 
> This is PR mastery, Rovian in its simplicity. It almost doesn’t matter any more whether the mainframe population is ageing… if perceptions are otherwise. War heros become cowards, and mainframes becomes youthful.

Click on the link above to find out more…