Re: 64 bit Windows...

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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