Re: Is AS/400 is dead ? You control the answer to thatquestion! -- MIDRANGE-L

John
        You hit the nail right on the head.Just check out the courses available
in almost every other form of computing, and there are courses.
        AS400 will probably die in a few years, simply because of marketing
pressures, and lack of exposure by the computing community at large. 

John Myers - MM wrote:
> 
> At 09:17 PM 8/3/01, you wrote:
> 
> > > AS/400.  Everyone else in the population either doesn't have a Master's
> > > degree
> >
> >So they should drop the Master's requirement.
> >
> >The Master's should be needed by someone who heads up the course
> >collection (I'd call it "department head" or similar, but I doubt the
> >AS/400 course collection fits as a "department"). But individual courses
> >or sections or whatever certainly shouldn't be that restricted.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> They might waive the Master's requirement for this position, however ...
> 
> What you must understand is that the "ranking" criteria for colleges is
> VERY closely tied to the ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS of their staff.  % of
> instructors with PHD or terminal degree in the field is a key ranking
> criteria.  % with master's degrees is next.  This ranking is life & death
> at the college level!!!
> 
> There are a ton of candidates with higher degrees in the other
> architectures ... quite frankly, one of the greatest strengths of the
> AS/400 is that you DON'T have to have a graduate degree to be a successful
> AS/400 user!  It is a different world than the one that the rest of us live
> in!  That's the difference between a university / college and a "technical
> school".  Many AS/400 developers have come up through the technical school
> route.  The trouble is that the local technical schools have abandoned
> their AS/400 curriculum!!!
> 
> Without new entrants to replace those of us that are nearing retirement,
> the AS/400 will die ...
> 
> John Myers
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