RE: Future of AS/400??????????????:(:(

["Gerald Kern" <gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure where we'll land. I'm afraid it won't be the (economic) soft
landing the talking heads are predicting. I got laid off at the first of
this month after 15 straight years programming RPG in the midrange industry.
And currently there is no one doing any hiring in the Toledo area. I'm less
than an hour from metro Detroit and distribution and manufacturing is still
big in the area. If the past is any indicator - what happens here
economically ripples through the rest of the country in about 6-9 months.
Our county unemployment rate is the highest in Ohio right now. It's not been
this bad around here since '83. Back then when I was in college, I thought a
computer programming career would see me through to retirement. Boy was I
wrong - I've got 20 years to go until I'm 62 and am again feeling like I
have to start over by learning MS Access, VB & Java. And IBM isn't doing
anything to help market the best box on the planet either. Thanks Lou.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Parvez Mirza
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:03 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Future fo AS/400??????????????:(:(


Hi All,

for past three years I'm working on AS/400... but now I've started feeling
that its very difficult to survive with RPG...
The world is changing.. to Java and all... where are we going to land...
Please help me..

Regards

Parvez
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