Re: 64 bit Windows...

Mark Shearer is the new iSeries General Manager. This link may be a start:

http://search400.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid3_gci1067918,00.html

And here is something more specific

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030705-story01.html

HTH
Vern

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> 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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