Re: 3 Days SABU Conference

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    Asghar_Jafri@hotmail.com (Asghar Jafri)
>  
>  Hello
>  
>  I am new to this list so please don't mind if this question is a 
repetition.
>  
>  I had heard that SSA was bankrupt - what's the status now?

They are still in business & when the dust clears, GT will own 75%
info about the new owner from http://www.gores.com

In the USA, bankrupsy is often a ploy to dump folks you owe money to, and 
write off otherwise legal debts & sometimes it is a wake up call to force 
people to clean up their act.  It is seldom the end of the world.  I had a 
friend who was earning 3 times as much as I was & spending about 10 times as 
much ... I was struggling to make ends meet ... he lost his job & declared 
bankrupsy.  He got to keep one of his cars, the house, the dogs, the home 
computer, the TV set, a whole bunch of other expensive toys.  He had to get 
rid of his boat ... when he was done, he was absolved of a lot of debt to 
utility companies & they could not disconnect him for non-payment.  

People who have declared bankrupsy can sometimes have a hard time getting 
credit for a while ... I do not understand this logic.  In theory there is a 
legal limit to how long it will be until the next time you can declare 
bankrupsy, so in theory someone who just had a bankrupsy is the best kind of 
credit risk, until the time gets close to when they can do it again.

I am an old fashioned kind of guy ... having a bankrupsy would be a stain on 
my reputation.

If you want doom & gloom, visit
http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=SSAX

>  My current workplace is at BPCS 2.1 and its so heavily modified that we 
don't 
> bad mouth BPCS anymore just our own local systems. Is BPCS 6 working ? Is 
> BPCS experience still marketable ? 
>  
>  My previous experience was on 4.0.4.

You might start with the BPCS job market web site
http://www.bpcsjobz.com

I suspect ERP experience is more marketable than on any one particular one.

MIDRANGE-L has got a thread going right now about RPG programmers ... sounds 
to me like a combination of the AS/400 communitity is not really live on 
telecommuting yet & regional economies ... some are in boom & some in bust.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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