Re: iSeries Misconceptions

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Doug,

I sort of guessed that.  Your earlier reply

> I don't think that is necessarily true.  I've been working on the S/3x
line
> since the 70's, and *none* of the installations I worked at ever had a
> resident programmer

especially the "*none* of the installations I worked at" gives the
impression you were employed there, and if you were, and they didn't have a
resident programmer, it follows that you were not in programming at the
time.

Being a contract programmer, I have a mix. At the moment, only one of my
customers does _not_ have at least one resident programmer; the others
generally have more than one.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



From: "Douglas Handy" <dhandy1@bellsouth.net>
> Peter,
>
> >I think Leif meant "weren't you a programmer at those places at that
time?"
>
> Which places are "those" places?  My employer (ie the business partner),
or the
> firms we supported?
>
> My point was that my employer was in the *business* of providing
programming
> services for those platforms.  So having a resident programmer kinda is to
be
> expected. <g>  The actual AS/400 shops who contracted with us had no
programming
> staff and usually no operations staff.
>
> I was refuting the contention that almost all 400 shops will have at least
one
> resident programmer.  That is definately not true in my (limited) view of
the
> world.



_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---