Re: Free OS/400

[Portal39@xxxxxxx]

A good survey question for David Gibb's web site

At what age does one become technologically obsolete?

Forget the law and what it says. How industry acts  counts

WilliamB@ccsd15.k12.il.us writes:


> Subj: RE: RE: Free OS/400
> Date: 07/03/2001 5:40:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:    WilliamB@ccsd15.k12.il.us (Bonnie Williams)
> Sender:    owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> Reply-to: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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> I'm with you Joe, I fit the description in Rob's message (born in the first 
> half of the last century) and I am learning something new every day.  I'm 
> working on Java now.  I'll take a 50 year old over a 20 year old any day.
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> >>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 07/03/01 02:30PM >>>
> I'm 40 years old (as of Sunday) - officially middle-aged according to my
> dear (older, mind you) brother - and I'm one of the leading proponents of
> Java, servlets, JavaServer Pages, client/server architecture and OO
> programming.  So nyahnyah to all the ageists out there <smile>.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com 
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:42 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
> > Subject: Re: RE: Free OS/400
> >
> > This ageism crap is bull$^|%!  The guy who designed our web site is 57
> > years old and we got him started on Notes designer and what not from the
> > ground up.  There is a gal in our department who was born in the
> > first half
> > of the last century and is taking a night course in Java.
> >
> > Rob Berendt