RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

This is crazy. The best platform that IBM has is the iSeries and what gets
the most promotion on TV? The zSeries aka mainframe. I am doing work with a
transportation company that is at the 1/2 Billion dollar mark in revenue and
was operating an IBM Mainframe to run there business. They were having
issues with the machine going down 2 or 3 times a week. This had been
happening for over a year. 

The CEO of this company went to a transportation conference and was talking
with other CEO's about the issue of his systems going up and down and was
this common. A CEO of another transportation company said he did not know of
a time his system has been down other that for scheduled maintenance. When
ask what type of system did he used he said and IBM iSeries. 

Now this company is running iSeries. I was brought in to assist in bring the
staff up to speed from CICS Cobol to RPG FREE. 

When I first started here the word was the Cobol programmers had said they
would never write an RPG program. They were fighting it tooth and nail. When
I started sitting down one on one with the programmers and showing them how
productive they can be they were amazed. Projects that would have taken them
weeks in COBOL took only days in RPG. Now they are singing the praises of
RPG Free and the iSeries. All it took was someone sit down with them and
explain it to them in terms they could understand.

Oh yeah. They have not been down for unscheduled downtime since they started
on the iSeries two years ago.

I again say that IBM needs to FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS on the system that has the
highest loyalty and satisfaction rating of any of there systems.

HELLO IBM ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been saying this for years.

WAKE UP IBM. YOU ARE NEGLECTING THE FINEST SYSTEM YOU HAVE EVER CREATED.


HOSS

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From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:03 PM
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Subject: Fw: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

Interesting article

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170000255