Re: 64 bit Windows...

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I'm thinking of folks like Malcolm Haines, Mark Shearer, etc. The 
new leadership team. Give them all the strokes we can, to say, "Good work - 
and keep doing it, please!"

I hope your UK friend is just not current, if we even are. I seem to 
remember that at the recent COMMON here, IBM said the Roadmap has been 
revised, that the push to J2EE was by a group inside IBM that got their way 
for a while but no longer. IBM supposedly now recognizes that there is a 
lot of RPG out here (DOH!).

Scalable? What in the world does this person mean by that word? Even 
without knowing the context of that remark, I find it astounding.

Sigh!
Vern

At 06:59 AM 4/29/2005, you wrote:

> Vern
>
> A good idea, but whom do you know with influence in IBM who really 
> supports the AS/400?  I know no one in IBM in the USA as I am out of touch 
> with  Rochester, etc., these days.
> I was talking a couple of weeks ago to an IBM UK senior techie whom I have 
> known for 15 years or more, and he said that the recently announced $1 
> billion investment in the AS/400 (iSeries, i5) was not for the AS/400 part 
> that we are so used to but more for the more recent features that tend to 
> make the i5 less distinguishable from the competition.  He believed that 
> RPG was not scaleable and that J2EE was the only way forward, etc..  I 
> found the conversation somewhat depressing!
>
> vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Agreed, Rob. An idea - we have got so used to sniping at IBM that this 
> > feels a little strange, but here goes--something like let's tell anyone 
> > we can at IBM that we appreciate the new efforts. And really mean it. An, 
> > at the same time, ask for more. With some helpful ideas, maybe.
> >
> > Just a thought - a little honey instead of vinegar.
> >
> > Vern
>
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