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Mark Shearer is the new iSeries General Manager. This link may be a start: http://search400.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid3_gci1067918,00.html And here is something more specific http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030705-story01.html HTH Vern -------------- Original message -------------- > Vern > > Vernon Hamberg wrote: > > > I guess I'm thinking of folks like Malcolm Haines, Mark Shearer, etc. > > The new leadership team. Give them all the strokes we can, to say, > > "Good work - and keep doing it, please!" > > I don't know Mark Shearer. I do know and appreciate Malcolm's > enthusiasm, but do more senior people, those that allocate funds for > marketing, listen to him? > > > I hope your UK friend is just not current, if we even are. I seem to > > remember that at the recent COMMON here, IBM said the Roadmap has been > > revised, that the push to J2EE was by a group inside IBM that got > > their way for a while but no longer. IBM supposedly now recognizes > > that there is a lot of RPG out here (DOH!). > > > > Scalable? What in the world does this person mean by that word? > > I should have reported that he said that RPG/CGI was not scaleable. I > did protest about his push to J2EE and he assured me that that was the > only way forward and that everyone (me!) had to move with the times. I > told him that I was very glad that I had not moved with the times when > IBM was pushing SAA as the only way forward. > > As I knew that he was not going to convinced by anything I said, I gave > up after about 25 minutes on the phone. I forgot to say to him that bad > system design will have a much greater effect on performance, > scalability, etc. than the method chosed for implementation. > > > Even without knowing the context of that remark, I find it astounding. > > I imagine that his line will be the one taken by many IBM UK people > since he is their technical expert. > > If you have chapter and verse for COMMON, I would happily go back to him > and get his reaction. > > Perhaps through this forum, we could get together a small group of > people who might try to push IBM. Anyone interested? > > Rob > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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