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Al, et al: The e-mail message sent from "Team Rochester" (Rochester Initiative, www.Lab400.com) is for the training course that I developed, "Develop Microsoft .NET Applications for the iSeries". A few weeks ago, you contacted Rochester Initiative at their office and asked for a return call. I did call your office and left my personal number. I have not heard back from you, but I understand that you are busy. The content of the e-mail clearly explained the offer. It is a training course, nothing more and nothing less. The title of the course is indicative of what is offered: "...for the iSeries". Not "Develop Microsoft .NET Applications so you can get rid of your iSeries". I've found the Microsoft development environments and tooling to be excellent products that have enabled many companies, including IBM, to enhance their iSeries offerings. I agree that web and GUI interfaces are not a good fit for some applications, but also maintain that 5250 is not suitable for some of the newer types of applications that fulfill real business requirements. I have developed courses and taught several hundred iSeries programmers how to use Java and WebSphere. However, despite IBM's desire for that product line to permeate the iSeries development world, there seems to be a need for simpler alternatives. The training course that is the subject of the e-mail was developed independently by myself. I had some initial feedback from the OCEAN user group technical conference in July 2005 and also at Cerritos College in conjunction with OCEAN in December 2005 where I led a hands-on course based on the material. I did not, and don't know how I could have, generated the demand for this material on my own. The demand appears to be there as a result of the market itself. My personal belief is that by showing iSeries developers how to use one of the modernization environments (.NET), and by showing current Microsoft developers how to effectively program for the iSeries, that the net result (no pun intended) is positive for the iSeries. Rest assured, there is no "evil" at work here. I am not "evil", nor is the Microsoft corporation, nor their business practices. You and others may vigorously disagree with my product offering, or have an unfavorable opinion of one of the largest and most successful American companies. But given the current very real problems in the world, let's reserve characterizations of "evil" for where the word is really appropriate, lest we further debase the English language to the point where we lose the ability to clearly identify evil where it exists. Craig Pelkie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:27 PM Subject: Re: One other thing: Does anybody know who this "TeamRochester" outfit is . . . > IMHO, this is an organization being fronted by M$ to migrate AS/400 > customers to M$. > > What they are doing might be legal (I am not a lawyer), but might be > irresponsible, or without integrity, or just good marketing for the Evil > Empire. They might disagree with me, and I welcome their comment in public > . > > I am recently seeing some low end customers squandering money on trying to > move to M$, with few succeeding. Those that do succeed seem to do it a > greater expense, but won't admit the fault. (My bottom line here is that > aggregated among customers [mostly low end - not my speciality], more money > is spend with less reward. Admittedly, some do hit a home run, but don't > but lottery tickets; I invest.) > > However, my current thought is that they are doing nothing good for our > platform, the best in the world! > > On the other hand, IBM does not have sufficient focus on the low end, as > the server capabilities increase, trying to woo us from our wife's (of many > years) to mistresses (younger and possibler sexier). Hey, is it better, or > do we lose the value of experience and maturity? What does it mean to our > businesses? > > Al > > Al Barsa, Jr. > Barsa Consulting Group, LLC > > 400>390 > > "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" > e gads > > Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! > > 914-251-1234 > 914-251-9406 fax > > http://www.barsaconsulting.com > http://www.taatool.com > http://www.as400connection.com > > > > > "Art Tostaine, > Jr." > <atostaine@gmail. To > com> Midrange Systems Technical > Sent by: Discussion > midrange-l-bounce <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > s@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc > > Subject > 02/15/2006 10:09 Re: One other thing: Does anybody > AM know who this "Team Rochester" > outfit is . . . > > Please respond to > Midrange Systems > Technical > Discussion > <midrange-l@midra > nge.com> > > > > > > > They are in my spam folder... > > On 2/14/06, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > . . . and why they might have gotten the impression that I > > had the slightest interest in writing "dot net" front-ends > > for AS/400 applications? I've received two very LARGE html > > emails from them in less than a week. > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:27 PM Subject: Re: One other thing: Does anybody know who this "TeamRochester" outfit is . . . > IMHO, this is an organization being fronted by M$ to migrate AS/400 > customers to M$. > > What they are doing might be legal (I am not a lawyer), but might be > irresponsible, or without integrity, or just good marketing for the Evil > Empire. They might disagree with me, and I welcome their comment in public > . > > I am recently seeing some low end customers squandering money on trying to > move to M$, with few succeeding. Those that do succeed seem to do it a > greater expense, but won't admit the fault. (My bottom line here is that > aggregated among customers [mostly low end - not my speciality], more money > is spend with less reward. Admittedly, some do hit a home run, but don't > but lottery tickets; I invest.) > > However, my current thought is that they are doing nothing good for our > platform, the best in the world! > > On the other hand, IBM does not have sufficient focus on the low end, as > the server capabilities increase, trying to woo us from our wife's (of many > years) to mistresses (younger and possibler sexier). Hey, is it better, or > do we lose the value of experience and maturity? What does it mean to our > businesses? > > Al > > Al Barsa, Jr. > Barsa Consulting Group, LLC > > 400>390 > > "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" > e gads > > Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! > > 914-251-1234 > 914-251-9406 fax > > http://www.barsaconsulting.com > http://www.taatool.com > http://www.as400connection.com > > > > > "Art Tostaine, > Jr." > <atostaine@gmail. To > com> Midrange Systems Technical > Sent by: Discussion > midrange-l-bounce <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > s@xxxxxxxxxxxx cc > > Subject > 02/15/2006 10:09 Re: One other thing: Does anybody > AM know who this "Team Rochester" > outfit is . . . > > Please respond to > Midrange Systems > Technical > Discussion > <midrange-l@midra > nge.com> > > > > > > > They are in my spam folder... > > On 2/14/06, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > . . . and why they might have gotten the impression that I > > had the slightest interest in writing "dot net" front-ends > > for AS/400 applications? I've received two very LARGE html > > emails from them in less than a week. > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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