RE: AS/6000

It depends on how you define the best talent.  Most of ourselves don't 
consider us the bottom of the barrel and yet still code RPG.  We've had 
people in here from the local high school trying to decide on whether or 
not they want to be a programmer.  Full tuition reimbursement and whatnot, 
makes their eyes sparkle.  Although I do catch your arguement a little.  
Many people were advised to switch jobs if their employer was hanging on 
to their S/36 long after the 400 came out.  Are all those people still 
running on CISC boxes fat and happy or is management trying to make up 
their mind between RISC and something else?




Don.Schenck@WL.com on 01/21/2000 12:14:24 PM
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Pat --

On the other side of the coin ...

Do you really think you can attract the BEST talent by offering the
opportunity to code in RPG/III??  Or even ILE RPG??

RPG programmers will NOT be flipping burgers any time soon; but the best
talent is going to Java, the Web, ASP, VB (to an extent), Linux, Win2000
(like it or not) ...

Peace,

-- Don Schenck
www.SchenckTech.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber [mailto:MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
Sent: January 21, 2000 2:33 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: AS/6000
Does anybody really think that business in general will decide one day
that
all their applications are written in the wrong language and they will 
rewrite everthing in a "modern" language ??

Do you really think all the thousands of small business in this country
are gonna decide that they can't live without a web site ??

When was the last time you heard the owner of a company say, 
"Why aren't we using unix/linux for our applications ??"

What was the last company you heard of that made "1" dime on E-commerce
??

Call State Farm,Allstate,Farmers Insurance companies and ask them when
they
plan on changing their thousands of AS/400's to a more hip machine with
snazzy applications that their people will like better.

Try to keep things in perspective and you'll be fine.
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