Re: RPG TALENT--Global issue

[Chris Rehm <Mr.AS400@xxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from Ravi <ravi@spacestar.com> on Wed, 27 May 1998 12:05:43
-0500

> The AS/400 is still perceived as a dinasour even among the IT community.
> (ex) If you flip through the employment ads in Computerworld, many
> RPG openings are listed under the mainframe category. Many of these
> ads are probably placed by "technical" recruiters who seem to have no
> clue about the technical prowess of the AS/400. To them there are 
> only 3 job categories : Internet, Client Server and everything else
> under "mainframe". I don't expect any computer science graduates 
> would want to land their first jobs in the "mainframe" world.

I guess it is tough to break a perception. After all, IBM has been advertising
their mainframes as web servers for years. I have seen the full color ads that
show the S/390 web pages etc., but it still seems that they have trouble shaking
the green screen image.

When AS/400 professionals can't evolve with the system, it doesn't surprise me
that the industry perception stays the same. 

> Ravi



Chris Rehm                                                    
Mr.AS400@ibm.net                                              
                                                              
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Get an AS/400.                                                
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