RE: The "greying of Common" Is it still true?

At 08:07 AM 04/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:

The AS/400 Tech Conferences preach the "Gospel according to St. IBM".  In 
many cases they are absolutely equivalent to COMMON.  In some cases it's 
possible that the instructors are better, but many IBM E&T instructors just 
get up and read the material.

COMMON provides a non-IBM perspective.  You would have never heard anyone 
at an IBM Tech conference say that "V3R1 sucks".

Al

>Everyone talks about COMMON as if its the only venue for training related to
>the AS/400.  Have any of you attended the IBM technical conference?  I've
>been around the mid range offerings since the hey days of S/3 15D and for my
>money the IBM conference is a much more rewarding experience then COMMON.
>Just One Persons Opinion
>Bill Erhardt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Martin [SMTP:smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:47 PM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:      RE: The "greying of Common"  Is it still true?
> >
> >       <snip>COMMON attendees should not be
> >       construed as a representitive sampling of AS/400 shops.  There are
> >       a lot of youngsters around, they all just don't know how to wangle
> >       a trip to COMMON out of the boss.
> >
> >       To ask the questions another way, how many of the folks that
> >       attend COMMON have to "ask" to go?  How many just write their own
> >       tickets? </snip>
> >
> > I am not yet 40. I've been on the AS/400 since Jan.1990 - System38 before
> > that.
> >
> > I have asked, hinted, suggested, and otherwise enumerated the reasons why
> > I
> > think it would be beneficial to attend COMMON... and I've never been
> > there.
> >
> > My manager (since June, last) has participated (COMMON) in the past but
> > makes little effort to budget that in - even with his experience. The way
> > I
> > see it, as long as some of you get to go, as long as many of you are
> > willing
> > to share what you've learned, and as long as you remain members of this
> > list
> > - I get my education from all of you.
> >
> > Steve Martin
> > Programmer/Analyst
> > Carefree of Colorado
> > 303/410.6239
> > smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com
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