Re: IBM's 3Q results

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys,

we're seeing the same in parts of the US.  It's becoming a buyers market
here at least until 12/31...I'm hearing that in some parts of the colonies
RPG'ers are a "dime a dozen"....

Lots of stuff on hold until after 1/1 or 2/29...whichever set of
paranoidisms they subscribe to...

Don in DC


On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Mauricio Della-Quercia wrote:

> 
> >Al Barsa, Jr. (barsa2@ibm.net)wrote:
> >
> > > Right now *EVERYBODY is employed.  I anticipate that the less effective
> > > programmers will be the first out into the marketplace.
> >
> >Sorry Al, I beg to differ. At least in the UK it's extremely difficult to
> >find any AS/400 work. Agencies are expecting it to remain "quiet" for at
> >least another 3 months.
> >
> >Dave Kahn
> 
> 
> I agree with Dave, the situation here in Canada is also very slow.
> Most people in the AS/400 field are saying that it should pick up by Jan or 
> Feb.
> 
> Mauricio Della-Quercia
> 
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