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  3. April 2005

Re: 64 bit Windows...

Vern

Vernon Hamberg wrote:

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 don't know Mark Shearer. I do know and appreciate Malcolm's enthusiasm, but do more senior people, those that allocate funds for marketing, listen to him?

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?

I should have reported that he said that RPG/CGI was not scaleable. I did protest about his push to J2EE and he assured me that that was the only way forward and that everyone (me!) had to move with the times. I told him that I was very glad that I had not moved with the times when IBM was pushing SAA as the only way forward.

As I knew that he was not going to convinced by anything I said, I gave up after about 25 minutes on the phone. I forgot to say to him that bad system design will have a much greater effect on performance, scalability, etc. than the method chosed for implementation.

Even without knowing the context of that remark, I find it astounding.

I imagine that his line will be the one taken by many IBM UK people since he is their technical expert.

If you have chapter and verse for COMMON, I would happily go back to him and get his reaction.

Perhaps through this forum, we could get together a small group of people who might try to push IBM. Anyone interested?

Rob



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