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Unfortunately, I know. There were lots of other IT guys in my program.
Sample conversation:
Other Student: So what do you guys run on?
Me: We're an iSeries shop?
OS: I've never heard of that. What's an iSeries?
Me: The new name for the AS/400.
OS: (Laughs) Why are you still running that old dinosaur?
Me: It's done a pretty good job of keeping up with the times.
OS: But, it's legacy.
Me: It doesn't go down.
OS: (Clears throat) What?
Me: It doesn't go down. Ever. Unless we take it down.
OS: (Looks sheepish) Uh, OK. Well, what do you run your website on?
Me: Another iSeries.
OS: You can't do that, can you?
Me: I sure hope so, I do it every day.
OS: How about mail?
Me: Domino.
OS: On NT or Unix?
Me: On the iSeries.
OS: I didn't know you could run Domino on the iSeries. How big is your
staff?
Me: About 20 people. 14 programmers, 5 help desk, one admin.
OS: One admin?
Me: One admin.
OS: Hmmm.
Mike E.
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Well, I'm 50 something, and based on what I've seen in my now 30 year IT
career, you are one of the rare ones.
Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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Paul wrote:
> Let me guess. The CFO is a newly minted MBA type in his 30's. Tell the
CFO
> that Microsoft runs a bunch of its business on AS/400's.
Hey, some of us 30-something MBA's learned about things like value and
ROI,
and we know the iSeries makes people money.
Mike E.
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