RE: Why is the iSeries so slow

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MHaston@xxxxxxx>]

<quote>
Don - I would respectfully disagree with your assertion. As a 20 yr
consultant I have worked in many shops, and I see a different picture.
Management more often refuses to invest in tools or training for iSeries
staff.  Keep the iSeries staff dealing with current projects, while bringing in
pc oriented staff (often no development background). Over & over I
have seen this. RPG programmers told "no ILE, no CGI, no ODBC,
no Java, no tools". Just support the existing apps. In 1999 we did demos
of rpg/cgi (easy400 a free tool!) to many dp managers at customers. Like
deer in headlights. The people who cannot think outside the box are not on the
technical side - it's the other side of the table.
btw-i'm still laughing at the web developer who wanted to email his database
updates to our iSeries, 1 email for every order, to support an e-commerce
site. jim (and back to work.. no ile, no triggers, no nothing fancy...)
</quote>


Right on!  Exactly what I've seen in my short tenure.  I've only been to COMMON 
because I used it as a bargaining tool at my first shop.  Two of my three 
companies I've worked for don't send their programmers to COMMON or any 
sessions that would advance their skills.  

Maybe the stability of the iSeries is it's curse for the programmers.  You can 
"get away" with the same stuff you've been doing for the past 15 years, unlike 
the PC world that jumps on the hottest technology proven or unproven and just 
puts out 15 revisions per year to fix the kinks.