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  • Subject: Re: Is AS/400 is dead ? You control the answer to that question!
  • From: John Myers - MM <jmyersmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 13:34:03 -0400

At 09:17 PM 8/3/01, you wrote:

> > AS/400.  Everyone else in the population either doesn't have a Master's
> > degree
>
>So they should drop the Master's requirement.
>
>The Master's should be needed by someone who heads up the course 
>collection (I'd call it "department head" or similar, but I doubt the 
>AS/400 course collection fits as a "department"). But individual courses 
>or sections or whatever certainly shouldn't be that restricted.

Tom,

They might waive the Master's requirement for this position, however ...

What you must understand is that the "ranking" criteria for colleges is 
VERY closely tied to the ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS of their staff.  % of 
instructors with PHD or terminal degree in the field is a key ranking 
criteria.  % with master's degrees is next.  This ranking is life & death 
at the college level!!!

There are a ton of candidates with higher degrees in the other 
architectures ... quite frankly, one of the greatest strengths of the 
AS/400 is that you DON'T have to have a graduate degree to be a successful 
AS/400 user!  It is a different world than the one that the rest of us live 
in!  That's the difference between a university / college and a "technical 
school".  Many AS/400 developers have come up through the technical school 
route.  The trouble is that the local technical schools have abandoned 
their AS/400 curriculum!!!

Without new entrants to replace those of us that are nearing retirement, 
the AS/400 will die ...


John Myers
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Technical Solutions
IBM Certified Specialist - Advisor for e-Business
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
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