RE: RPG naming

Marvin,

I believe the college item is huge...  I was fortunate enough that my 
junior college offered some courses in RPG, CL and AS/400 operations.  I 
was directed from a friend of the family to try it because he stated they 
needed more RPG developers in his firm and that was 8 years ago when I was 
18 years old...  I have to say that was one of the best moves I have ever 
done in my short life....  They have a great professor that heads the 
department and is a consultant on the side so he brings real-life items to 
the table for the students...  I have to say one thing I was definitely 
the youngest student in the small very small classes most of the others 
came from organizations that were pushing an employee to learn about the 
AS/400 ...

All my other classmates went the route of VB....

I think we change the name and place the Windows logo on it and I bet the 
students would come running..... ha ha :0)







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It simple but maybe impossible.  Port the OS/400 to the PC platform.
Once both machine run the same operating system, they will migrate.

Or you could do like Apple attempted to do back in the 70's and 80's.
Donate enough machines to colleges and schools so that a significant
portion of the student population is prejudice toward your
hardware/software that when the time for decisions approaches, they will
go with what is familiar.

Simple? Yes. Possible? Probably not.

Marvin


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:01 AM
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Subject: Re: RPG naming

Joe,

interesting thing about 60's/70's Rock (classic rock) is that the
current 
generation of kids is picking it up and adopting it
as thier own...  It is interesting to listen to 60's rock being played
on 
Disney's kids channel on XM radio.


Now, how do we get kids to pickup i5/os and leave lesser o/s's like
windows 
and unix aside or for thier niche market?

Don in DC