RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

What happened? Did we who love and know this platform is the best ever
made fail? Or did Microsoft learn from the greatest marketing machine in
modern history (IBM) how to give the PERCEPTION that a Microsoft based
solution is the best?

I worked for two years (a long time ago) in a mainframe shop. 75
programmers total. 45 application (mainframe) 5 (novell) and 25 SYSTEM.
Yes, 25 people to maintain a freakin' computer! Oh not to mention, 12
operators and 5 tape and report management support tech's.I explained to
the CIO one day about the S/38. He was very interested so he contacted
the IBM folks, guess what they told him? "Oh, you can't run that box,
you are too big". Comment circa 1989-1990. Yeah, and the fact that IBM
had 3 people on site permanently did not help the cause.

I visited this company 5 years ago when the CIO was retiring. First
thing he mentioned to me, "you remember our conversation about a new
platform machine? Systme something or another? Well, turns out my
replacement thinks that IBM mainframes' are awful and he is moving the
company to SAP". I shook my head and walked away.......


Bentley Pearson
Vice President - Information Services
Southland National Insurance Corporation
1812 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, Al
35403
205 345 7410
bpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Allen
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

Cincy used to ROCK the midrange world......................

On 4/24/07, Bentley Pearson <BPearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HAH! They pay in sausage. ;)

If you want to find RPG skills just come to Birmingham, Alabama. One

of

the area's larger employers from what I have read is tanking. I

believe

they have an iSeries staff of over 50. Lots of contractors on top of

the

employee base.

The code is mostly rpg-sql with a smattering of real ILE constructs.

North Central Alabama 15 years ago was a large IBM midrange install
base. Not anymore. In 1989 I worked for a company that gave me one
objective. GET RID OF IBM. PERIOD. This from the CFO. I did and they
canned me. I guess the IBM logo tattooed on my rear did not help
me.............



Bentley Pearson
Vice President - Information Services
Southland National Insurance Corporation
1812 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, Al
35403
205 345 7410
bpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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you willing to pay extra for those who hate cold weather ;-)

Thanks,
Tommy Holden




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Hi Mike,

I assume you are being sarcastic.

I'm not being sarcastic.

I'm currently looking to hire two RPG programmers, and haven't had

many

responses. Of the 10 or so responses I have had, perhaps half of them
are from people with no RPG experience who figured they'd apply

anyway,

just in case.

I'm an RPG advocate, and I often speak about the benefits of RPG. It's
very common to hear managers complain that they feel RPG is not a good
future direction because there's very little RPG talent. They have a
hard time finding RPG programmers. When they do, they're always older
people who they expect to retire within the next decade or so.

The other problem, of course, is that RPG programmers don't ever want

to

upgrade their skills. This has led to the widespread opinion that RPG
is only for maintaining legacy green-screen software. But the lack of
talent is starting to eclipse this problem!

It really makes me sad.
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