RE: giving an iSeries system to each college

Those who are simply looking for something to dabble in are more likely to

complain loudly "No GUI! No .NET! No <insert whatever here>!" I think we can
happily ignore them. 

You made a lot of good points Tom, and I think the GUI portion is the
biggest.  I can't wait to see what George Farr and his people come up with
concerning RPG GUI's (most likely browser, but we shall see).  I hope that
it has nothing to do with Java/Websphere but instead is a simple framework
that can run under Apache for second to none ease of browser event
programming.  They have plenty of models to no what to do and not do that is
for sure.

Aaron Bartell