RE: The "greying of Common" Is it still true?

Everyone talks about COMMON as if its the only venue for training related to
the AS/400.  Have any of you attended the IBM technical conference?  I've
been around the mid range offerings since the hey days of S/3 15D and for my
money the IBM conference is a much more rewarding experience then COMMON.  
Just One Persons Opinion
Bill Erhardt 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Martin [SMTP:smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:47 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: The "greying of Common"  Is it still true?
> 
>       <snip>COMMON attendees should not be
>       construed as a representitive sampling of AS/400 shops.  There are
>       a lot of youngsters around, they all just don't know how to wangle
>       a trip to COMMON out of the boss.
> 
>       To ask the questions another way, how many of the folks that
>       attend COMMON have to "ask" to go?  How many just write their own
>       tickets? </snip>
> 
> I am not yet 40. I've been on the AS/400 since Jan.1990 - System38 before
> that.
> 
> I have asked, hinted, suggested, and otherwise enumerated the reasons why
> I
> think it would be beneficial to attend COMMON... and I've never been
> there.
> 
> My manager (since June, last) has participated (COMMON) in the past but
> makes little effort to budget that in - even with his experience. The way
> I
> see it, as long as some of you get to go, as long as many of you are
> willing
> to share what you've learned, and as long as you remain members of this
> list
> - I get my education from all of you.
> 
> Steve Martin
> Programmer/Analyst
> Carefree of Colorado
> 303/410.6239
> smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com
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