RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts -- MIDRANGE-L

GM would rather sell Cadillacs than Chevettes...simple as that.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts
> From: "Bruce Collins" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, September 01, 2005 9:10 am
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is crazy. The best platform that IBM has is the iSeries and what gets
> the most promotion on TV? The zSeries aka mainframe. I am doing work with a
> transportation company that is at the 1/2 Billion dollar mark in revenue and
> was operating an IBM Mainframe to run there business. They were having
> issues with the machine going down 2 or 3 times a week. This had been
> happening for over a year. 
> 
> The CEO of this company went to a transportation conference and was talking
> with other CEO's about the issue of his systems going up and down and was
> this common. A CEO of another transportation company said he did not know of
> a time his system has been down other that for scheduled maintenance. When
> ask what type of system did he used he said and IBM iSeries. 
> 
> Now this company is running iSeries. I was brought in to assist in bring the
> staff up to speed from CICS Cobol to RPG FREE. 
> 
> When I first started here the word was the Cobol programmers had said they
> would never write an RPG program. They were fighting it tooth and nail. When
> I started sitting down one on one with the programmers and showing them how
> productive they can be they were amazed. Projects that would have taken them
> weeks in COBOL took only days in RPG. Now they are singing the praises of
> RPG Free and the iSeries. All it took was someone sit down with them and
> explain it to them in terms they could understand.
> 
> Oh yeah. They have not been down for unscheduled downtime since they started
> on the iSeries two years ago.
> 
> I again say that IBM needs to FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS on the system that has the
> highest loyalty and satisfaction rating of any of there systems.
> 
> HELLO IBM ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> We have been saying this for years.
> 
> WAKE UP IBM. YOU ARE NEGLECTING THE FINEST SYSTEM YOU HAVE EVER CREATED.
> 
> 
> HOSS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:03 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Fw: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts
> 
> Interesting article
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170000255
> 
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> 
> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> 708-670-6978  Cell
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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