Re: Is AS/400 is dead ? You control the answer to that question!

If you wonder why people can get away with saying that the AS/400 is dead, 
look at the source on new professionals entering the profession.

For the past five years, I have spent one night a week teaching at my local 
community college (trust me, I don't do it for the money).  I am the only 
individual that the college has been able to retain that knows the 
AS/400.  Everyone else in the population either doesn't have a Master's 
degree or is so busy with their families and careers that they don't want 
to take the time to help out.

My AS/400 intro course (web site http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/faculty/jmyers/ 
) is always over-subscribed (even when I taught it on a FRIDAY Night).  The 
college could fill several additional sections if it had the instructors to 
staff it.  They could offer & fill a complete AS/400 curriculum if others, 
like myself, chose to devote a night a week to advance their profession.  A 
WHOLE LOT OF STUDENTS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE AS/400, BUT THERE AREN'T 
ENOUGH INSTRUCTORS TO TEACH THEM.

DON'T BLAME IBM.  My company is the sponsor of the IBM AS/400 Partners in 
Education program for the college.  IBM has been more than helpful to the 
college.  My students operate on a new technology AS/400 that the college 
leases at VERY attractive rates (1% of retail value per month).

Many of the other faculty members have told the students that the AS/400 is 
a dead box.  That's because they don't know anything about it & it 
threatens the competing architectures that they teach.  Without more voices 
like mine, I get drowned out.

Who else will step up in their own local communities?

John Myers
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Technical Solutions
IBM Certified Specialist - Advisor for e-Business
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
17 S. Franklin Turnpike, Ramsey, NJ 07446  USA
E-mail: mailto:jmyers@sbsusa.com   Phone: +1 (201) EASY 400   x131
Web:    http://www.sbsusa.com      Fax:   +1 (201) 327-6984

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