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

John
        You hit the nail right on the head.Just check out the courses available
in almost every other form of computing, and there are courses.
        AS400 will probably die in a few years, simply because of marketing
pressures, and lack of exposure by the computing community at large. 

John Myers - MM wrote:
> 
> 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
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