RE: How to find out the main memory capacity

I think skill is not the issue here, financial situations and alternatives are. 
Persons affected by "offshoring" still have the skills and the experience; 
their substitutes offshore may not have that. The remark "Cheaper is 
(sometimes) better" can be contradicted with "More expensive is not always 
better". I have had experience with persons considered to be experts, but 
failed miserably. I think others have simular experiences.

The strangest thing is, that those newbies are thrown in at the deep end 
without any mentoring, guidance, support from responsible people (where are 
their seniors?); without any access to manuals (books or CD's); and with 
limited access to the Internet (apperently only e-mail). On the other hand,  
somehow they got the link to this mailing list. Perhaps an attempt to cut on 
training (any training?), after all.

I think some of the negative remarks are correct, but I think the newbies 
should not be scared off; the platform is too large to know every aspect of it. 
But the way those newbies phrase their questions will arouse this controversy 
again in the near future.

Hopefully this discussion has ended.

Just my rambling thoughts on the matter, worth 2 Euro cents.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 14-8-03 at 18:58 John Earl wrote:

>> Have you looked up these guys (hcltech, gurgaon, India) on the internet?
>> These are the 'offsourcing' guys who are taking our jobs - and then they
>> expect us to train them for free as well!!
> 
>If your job is threatened by someone who doesn't know how to find the
>amount of memory on OS/400, consider updating your skills.