IBM Education Co-Ventures (was Re: Java and the AS/400)

Walden,

In a message dated 97-11-25 09:33:57 EST, you write:

> While I can't agree more, before IBM can assure that curriculums are valid
>  for the current hardware they need to allow universities to get the
current
>  hardware. I am currently looking into the Partners in Education program
for
>  a local university and the paperwork from IBM says that they will donate
the
>  hardware to the school. Great! Except the list is "old" CISC hardware.
>  Surely an old list, right? Well, I contacted IBM and they said that the
list
>  was current, they are "looking into" a program for the RISC boxes where
the
>  school could lease the hardware for a dollar per hundred per month.
($20,000
>  machine costs 200/mo) This is the standard developer lease deal. IBM needs
>  to give these machines away!!! It's hard enough getting a school to
arrange
>  a currculum to teach something that they don't know about, if I have to go
>  in and tell them they will have to lease hardware too it's near
impossible.

Just another of my (long-standing) gripes!  One of the reasons that I
switched to Business from Comp-Sci was that I would go to work and program at
the terminal on my desk, then go to college and fight for a keypunch machine
and card-reader.  What was the purpose of learning technology that was
already outdated?  Of course, (when it's too late) in another year the RISC
boxes could start showing up on the list...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"People who snore always fall asleep first." -- Unknown
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