RE: Hello World

[Joe Teff <JoeTeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Here are some questions we could contemplate:
>  - Is business starting to pick up now after the Y2K hiatus for anything other
>than web related consulting?
 
Companies are looking for hires, but not too much contract/consultant work.
I don't see as much direct e-work on the AS/400 as I do providing access to
the AS/400 data/programs for an other-platform web sever (like NT).

>  - Have any of you had direct hands on experience with V4R5, yet?  How rapidly
>would you advise your clients to consider installing it?

I'm a software person, not a hardware person, so I'm waiting for V5R1 in the 
Spring.

>  - What about PASE?  It seem fully functional now with the V4R5 
>implementation;
>any thoughts on how/if to leverage it?

People are just starting to really use RPG/IV, so PASE is a little "out there".

>  - Are consultants truly so bashful that they can't start threads of
>discussion?

Not really too many consulting issues to deal with other than the market woes.

>  - IBM claimed they were going to kick off a new X-Treme ad campaign for the
>400, has anyone seen signs of it yet?

I'm not holding my breath until this happens.

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I have learned Java and passed the Sun Java 2 Programmer Certification. I also
attended a WebSphere seminar in Rochester. Not too much going on there either
(at least on the AS/400). You have to move to the UNIX world to find Java work
it seems.

Joe Teff