RE: Left AS/400 and Returned

[jns <JNS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This problem has been going on for years. From another angle, alot depends on 
your job. If you are happy and secure, that is a most important aspect. If you 
don't have work, or are in a sub - standard position or company, you can't imo, 
just try to get an AS/400 based job, because the market remains tight. You have 
to expand your skills into other areas. This is the question I have had for 
some time now, what to focus on for personal study?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Odom [mailto:Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005, 11:50 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Left AS/400 and Returned
> 
> Don in DC said:
> 
> "We've got a local company that's become a bit of a laughing stock
> around
> here...  It's estimated that they've spent well over 55 MILLION to goto
> a
> oracle system on HPUX and get off the 400...  Last update I heard they
> finally made it...but that's a serious chunk of change..."
> 
> The saying "a fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind,
> however, it appears the trend from the iSeries to another "perceived"
> better platform is inevitable regardless how foolish it might be.   And,
> besides IBM, the iSeries community, as a whole, is not helping matters
> by touting legacy application development methodologies, languages, file
> structures, presentation layers, etc., in somewhat of a religious way
> and therefore seen as legacy and inflexible to the new ways and
> therefore not appealing to management wanting to go to something else.  
> 
> 
> My advice to the iSeries community is change your application
> development methodology and the way you present the iSeries to compete
> with the Unix flavors, the Oracles, the SQLServers, or be ready to go
> the way of the "rust belt".     
> 
> "Resistance is futile... you will be assimilated" also comes to mind.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Dave
> 
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