Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries

Why not get local businesses involved and offer internships at iSeries 
shops...or something like that?  Why wouldn't companies start in-house training 
for their iSeries folks, start at operations and work into programming?  What 
do they have to lose?   
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:08:35 -0500
Subject: Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries



Bingo Trevor!

Well, education seems to be the key here, Trevor.

Frankly, what education IS current IT getting??  Once again, let's rehash 
this again as IBM still doesn't get it.  Students in ANY IT ciriculum today 
are being forced Window and Unix dialects, databases, IDE's, languages, 
methods....  That's what they learn in school.  That's the ONLY 
talent/knowledge base they bring to the market place.  That's what they 
want to buy/work with/hire/promote/etc....

Gee, is there any question why we're seeing what we are??



At 11:52 AM 1/17/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>It is sad, really... A little education goes a long way. Lack of education
>creates ignorance and keeps us in the last century..
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don"
>Subject: Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries
>
>
> >
> > Actually, I have no idea how it was implemented, and you're right, but the
> > IT Dir's position was that all the drop downs, etc., were killing the
> > front
> > desk folks's performance...   Their words, not mine.
> >
> > Oh well...time for more important things...like lunch.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 11:26 AM 1/17/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Poor implementation of a GUI does not make 5250 better!
> >>
> >>:-)
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Don"
> >>Subject: Re: iSeries ads taken over by xSeries
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Jerry,
> >> >
> >> > What WAS interesting was talking to a IT Dir at a casino/hotel that had
> >> > wanted to replace all the front desk check in 5250 devices with
> >> > GUI/Windows...  The front desk people bitched so loudly that
> >> > GUI/Windows
> >> > was slowing them down that the GUI was replaced accross the board with
> >> > 5250
> >> > devices again... :)
> >> >
> >> > Don in DC
>
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