RE: Another AS/400/iSeries/i5 User Group bits the dust -- i5

Way to go Aaron! 

One thing I've seen from the winweenies :) is that they don't have a clue what 
we can do on the i!

Tell the profs that with one i5 server, and maybe a partition or two, they can 
still teach SQL, C, CPP, RPG, COBOL, HTTP, e-business, COBOL, Java, JSP, SOA, 
server partitioning, AIX, System partitioning, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, FTP, 
Telnet, DRDA, sockets programming, SSL, OO programming, Pascal (right?), Basic, 
Visual RPG, PLI, Rexx, Query, Databases, Security. 

And put a Windows card on there (I used to rib my Windows-programming brother 
by calling them "baby cards") and teach all of that stuff. Come to think of it, 
they can use thin clients for the whole gamut for workstations. And they could 
teach the windows stuff too but keep it ->protected<- on the i5! 

And if we get going with our GUI programming, be it HTML, Java, or (ahem) 
dot-Net tie-ins, or some other user-pleasant interface, and do it right, we can 
serve up all the sorting and data an accountant could ever want without having 
to insist on his Excel spreadsheets! 

--Alan


-----Original Message-----
albartell......I just had lunch with a prof from a local tech college and he is 
going to have me come and speak about XML web services on the iSeries.  I am 
also
going to see if I can get some class time to show the students WDSC.  


debbie....>Now we're lucky to get 12 every few months. Things have been 
deteriorating for quite some time and that will take awhile to come back.  We 
need to get into the colleges to show people that the iSeries is still going 
strong.  I am fortunate enough to have a local college that still teaches RPG 
and iSeries classes.  From the sounds of it IBM recognizes this and has some 
solid case studies of them getting back into colleges.  Now that same pattern 
just needs to spread to other colleges.

Aaron Bartell