Re: What after Year2000

Al,

Good points and prognostications...  I'ld like to submit some addendums to
your list:

n+1:  The glut of programmers hitting the market will be somewhat
alleviated by the fact that alot of current ongoing needs have been
shelved or postponed until they could get a timeslice.  Look for the
number of pgmrs available to max out 2001-2003.

n+2:  The programming environment of 2002 will be substancially different
than it is today.  GUI will be the name of the game and even though VRPG
and JAVA may not be magnum hits now, "windows" and "user friendly" (for
STUPID and LAZY users, jmho) will be the environment du jour...  IFF the
400 survives, it will serve as a server environment with thin client
(thanks for the good idea, Lou B.!) and not the box that we all migrated
our S/38 and (that glorified PC with VSAM support, aka s/36) onto back
several years ago.  Frankly, NT is driving this direction.

n+3:  You will be running NT on your desktops, if not on your main house
system(s)/Server(s), or you may be seriousely considering it.

n+4:  There will be a strong move of programmers to non-RPG'ish
environments.....4GL's, etc....  $GL's will have to become more price
friendly and generate code that can be modified and recompiles sans $gl
software on a target box

n+5:  LEARN C NOW...and get NT certified NOW.

n+6:  There will be some struggling 400's still around for us oldies to
retire programming legacy apps on...but not alot...

n+7:  in 2002, you will still be able to buy software/compilers, etc. for
NT that's NOT TIERED PRICED BASED ON THE CPU!!!!  This tiered pricing has
always been a pain in my a......

n+8:  Al Barsa will still talk faster than the French can translate at
Eurocommon....  :)

n+9:  Winfax will STILL offer more functionality on the PC than FAX/400
does on the 400.... :)

n+10:  common will still be debating the CUDS issue.... :) 

n+11:  Hillary will still be selling pork bellies...

Later dudes and dudettes!


Don in DC

alt.cuds@dicks.pub

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