Re: Chasing the wrong target? (was "giving an iSeries ...)

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

The reason there are a lot is that it takes a lot of them to get one who has
even a clue as to what "business programming" is about and not just how to
make it look pretty, do "neat" tricks, et al

On 1/25/07, Richter,Steve <Steve.Richter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Paris [mailto:Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:40 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Chasing the wrong target? (was "giving an iSeries ...)
>
>
> >>      I follow your statement but what other directions?
>
> >Perhaps it is time to think about doing something similar.  Rather than
> >spend millions to attract a shrinking group of IT students, perhaps it is
> >time to consider training workers laid off due to outsourcing etc.
>
> I vote IBM speeds up the system to what the p5 quad cores can do. Then
> make the entire i5/OS threadsafe. This enables Java to be used as the native
> language of the system. There are a lot of Java programmers.
>
> -Steve
>
>
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