Re: New RPG programmers

[Mike Eovino <meovino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unbelievable?  I wish that it were.  Do you know how much PR work some
of us have to do for our iSeries in our company to keep users for
campaigning for different different platforms?  All because somebody's
buddy at company X can do function Y on their Windows/SQL
Server/Unix/Oracle box that we don't offer?

Can we do it on the iSeries?  You bet.  For less money, with less
staff, faster, more securely and more reliably.  But if we're not
delivering those kinds of solutions to our users, if we're not
learning new tools, techniques and technologies that's what they think
of us.  We make ourselves look bad and we make the platform look bad. 
We perpetuate the stereotype.

Of course, the people on this list aren't the problem.  Anyone who
bothers to read this list is obviously interested in learning and
expanding their horizons, so we're all preaching to the choir.  The
problem is the other people in our shops who refuse to keep up with
the times.

Mike E.



On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:47:03 -0500, Rooney, Michael P
<michael.p.rooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> "We'll continue to make users think we can't do the things they want in
> RPG on the iSeries..."
> 
> UNBELIEVABLE!!!