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  3. January 2005

RE: IBM a personal comment

> From: whiterabbit1
> 
> The reasons the students are versed in .net are because that
> environment is dead easy for the school to set up.  They get the
> software dirt cheap or free from Microsoft.  Student's see .net as
> having a future, at least more than the iSeries, which most of them
> have never heard of.  The other driver is jobs.  You can get a job as
> a .net developer.  How many new graduates are needed this year to fill
> iSeries jobs?

In my area, there are nearly as many RPG jobs as .NET jobs.  And the
numbers seem to be on the rise for RPG.

Based on your scenario, the schools should be teaching Java over
everything.  Java trumps them both in number of positions available, and
Java is just as easy to set up (and with Eclipse, you have a great, free
IDE).

Joe

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