Re: PASE

Jon,

Agreed, the agenda is still fluid for the June conference.  If they do
schedule sessions, I am hoping this post will preclude what happened last
June with the LPAR session.  There were folks hanging from the light
fixtures for that one on Friday morning!  :-)  Not only was it very popular,
but alot of folks missed it because of travel arrangements.

To the contrary, I think there is a customer interest as well in shops like
ours where there are multiple AS/400 and UNIX boxes installed and an
opportunity to port stuff.  That customer demand will in turn drive BP's and
IBM.   I think the Tech Conference would be an excellent place to begin to
position customers to take advantage of this.

Regards,

Mike Shaw
Senior AS/400 Technical Support
North American Mortgage
Santa Rosa, CA

----- Original Message -----

>
>
>   >> It even gets one better:  I was reviewing the AS/400 Technical
Conference
> agenda coming up in June.  There is not one session on PASE and what it
brings
> to the table as it stands right now in the conference agenda.
>
> Coupla points.
>
> First it seems to me that IBM have made it clear that they view PASE as a
> Software Vendor porting platform _not_ as something an end-user would
target.
> That's not to say that it won't go there in the future (although I have my
> doubts) but that is not the current intent.  Remember that when Frank
Soltis
> talks about this kind of stuff he's talking about theoretical
possibilities -
> and that's a very long way from what might be in plan at the Lab.
>
> Second, the Tech Con agenda is a long way from final yet - they have to
leave
> room for announcements etc. that will occur between now and the
conference.  You
> won't see those on the agenda either.
>
> Given these points I would be surprised to see anything on the agenda.  I
> suspect that PASE was on the COMMON agenda only because there were BPs
there
> that IBM wanted to get the message.  The Tech Con is not where a BP would
> normally go for this kind of education - they'd go to the Forum event in
> Rochester, La Hulpe, or Tokyo (I believe the Rochester event is on as I
write
> this).
>


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