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Booth,

valid point, but, look at the big picture of where the paths the decision makers are on.

I only know of two major CEOs that came up the ranks from IT...

My comment goes to conditioning.

Don in DC


At 02:40 PM 1/18/2006 -0600, you wrote:
On the other hand, Don, One does not need a college degree to run an
iSeries.  Isn't that a strength of the platform?

Don wrote:
> They'll have snow in hell before IBM follows Microsoft's lead on putting
> product and cirriculum in the schools.
>
> Also, Presuming it was all in place now, it'd be a full generation of
> IT'ers before there was a market trend change...that's a long time.
>
>
>
>
> At 09:17 AM 1/18/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>>  Guys,
>>
>>   I just had a conversation with my supervisor for about an hour
>> regarding the future of the
>> Iseries with our company. One of the sticking points that upper management
>> is using (to justify
>> phasing the platform out) is the "greying" of the Iseries workforce. There
>> has been discussions
>> about this on this board but, I thought I would just throw this in as just
>> more fodder.
>> Amazingly, they all agree on  what a great platform it is. They can't
>> complain about its cost.
>> But, I guess any reason is as good as another.   I really think if IBM
>> wants to insure the
>> survival of this platform they will consider dropping some freebie systems
>> off at some colleges
>> (give aways are great for marketing. Just ask Microsoft). They need to do
>> more marketing to show
>> that they are educating a new line of developers (not just in Asia) but,
>> here where there will be
>> exposure.  Otherwise, the perceptions of the MBA's of the future will
>> always be tainted against
>> the platform.
>>
>>  Anyway, just my two cents.
>>
>>  Vance
>>
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