Re: iSeries Education (was iSeries vs. zSeries)

Larry,

I used to work for a consultant.  Their philosophy towards education was 
that if they trained you it just made you more marketable and you'd leave 
the company.  They even earned free educational credits for peddling 
S/36's and didn't use it to train one of the "on-the-bench" people in 
basic S/36 operations because of that fear.  Wouldn't you know, a week or 
three later we had a company wanting to pay consultant rates for someone 
to do operations for a week because their operator was in the hospital. 
But we had no one available.  (This gal was the one who referred me to the 
head hunter that got me my job here.)

They're bankrupt now.  Go figure.  For the longest time after that I felt 
that consultants were all that way as far as education.  Even though I've 
had other occasions from other firms doing business here that reinforced 
my opinion, I do realize that not 'all' consultants are that way.

Rob Berendt