Re: PASE -- MIDRANGE-L

Janet,

Charlie Quiqq replied to the list yesterday that they were considering
adding one or more sessions in June.  There were no other details.


Thanks,

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

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

> Have you sent a feedback form back to the conference organizers telling
> them you would like to see PASE added to the agenda?  If you're interested
> in sitting through a PASE session, that approach might work better than
> just e-mailing this list...  After all, since material was presented at
> COMMON, you know there is material available.  And you can suggest that if
> additional content for PASE is being added to the next AS/400 release, you
> would like to see detailed information on that as well.  Let us know if
you
> get a response!
>
> Janet Krueger
> D H Andrews Group
>
>
>
>
>
> "Mike Shaw" <mshaw@ncal.verio.com> on 03/31/2000 11:55:43 AM
>
>
>
>
> 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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