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Re: 64 bit Windows...

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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