Re: AS400 RPG Scanning Question

[Mike Berman <mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, the reason for the outsourcing is the greed of the companies, which 
includes not giving a care about their fellow Americans. What I mean by greed, 
is that the people at the top will gain financially by increasing profits. This 
includes the H1's that should have been sent home. I know some H1's who are at 
some of the largest companies in the USA, since 2000 already. They are paid at 
very low rates. These companies even paid to train them in a new platform. 
 
It is the corporate blind capitalism that is the problem, that and the fact 
that we don't have a national caring for the plight of displaced workers. We 
care about homeless and welfare cases by giving money, or food stamps, but 
there is no national sense of crisis as I and millions of Americans, suffer or 
suffered extended unemployment, severe under-employment and povery level income.
 
For me, the only hope is Kerry. Not that I am impressed that he went to Vietnam 
or was a showboater or not. Just that I know that Bush did nothing to help us, 
so I have to switch roads.
 
Thank you,
Mike
"Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Whatever happened to the concept and practicality of protecting software 
investment?
In a situation where the technology changes venues, in all likelihood, the 
database will change.
Is there no way, that the front end extract/sort mechanism can be built , and 
maintain the existing programs?

I witness this all too often, wherein, after a movement to a new vendor's 
software base, all the projects 
after that point, are involved with re-inventing the wheel.
I guess a lot of companies have 'more money than brains'..
Typical purchase of a reporting set of tools that interface with the 'new' 
technology, and then millions spent on 
redoing, what was already in place.

I have to wonder some time, if our own stupidity isn't a great source of fodder 
for out-sourcing. 



Ken Shields
Oshawa systems group
Works 81, Oshawa Ontario


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