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On 6/30/06, Raby, Steve <agnictsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually just had a chat with the boss and he is full of praise for the iSeries, one of the reasons he/they are thinking about it is that he cannot get decent RPG programmers. "It is very difficult" he was saying "and all the ones we get are like you, grey haired, all the younger ones are going for Java and the like." So what is the answer? I don't know.
Let's hope the new sales managers at IBM, coming from the successful p5 division of the company, will merge the i5 with the p5 and allow i5/OS to run in a p5 partition. Overnight that would grow the i5/OS market to millions? of installed p5 systems and give programmers a reason to learn to program our system. Here is a recent Timothy Prickett Morgan article on the new sales managers: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062606-story02.html IBM last week announced that it has appointed a new director of sales for the System i platform with regards to the business partner and independent software vendor channel. As has been the case for a number of years, Peter Small, who starts work this week, hails from IBM's Unix sales team, and Big Blue is hoping that the experience that Small has will help the company and its partners better peddle the i5/OS platform. A year ago, Mark Shearer, general manager of the System i division, appointed Bill Donohue as vice president of worldwide sales for the product line. Small has not replaced Donohue, but rather works for him, specifically interfacing with the reseller partners and the ISVs that are more or less responsible for about 85 percent of OS/400 and i5/OS platform sales each year. "Peter was tremendously successful in his previous position leading and developing the worldwide sales teams responsible for the System p business," said Donohue in a statement accompanying the announcement. "On a personal level, I worked with Peter back when he ran the System p Americas team and saw first hand the enormous impact this man made, taking Unix market share from last to first. I passionately believe he will do the same to System i."
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