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

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:

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From: Jon Paris [mailto:Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:40 PM
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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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