RE: Did we have another name change? -- MIDRANGE-L

Justin,

I gotta say I agree with you.  I for one plan to be working on this platform
as long as I can, and I cannot do that unless I move forward with the
technical trends.  So what if I have to learn something new with every
release....  

/rant
I feel that too many "professionals" have become career coasters, willing to
simply rest on their 1982 laurels....  Go on, retire already and make way
for the real programmers.  Some people rant and rave at IBM because of the
"Greying of COMMON", saying that there's no new blood coming onto the
platform.  In fact, there will be little new blood comming to the platform
as long as these programmers are not allowed to embrace the new
technologies.  How does it sound to a prospective new-hire when they are
told that "ILE is a no-no in this shop", or "no playing around with that Web
server stuff".  Why are there legions of programmers who have never seen
embedded SQL?  Why is ILE still called "the new stuff"? 

Where do you think these young IT pros are going to go?


Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-297-2863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Haase, Justin C.
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Did we have another name change?


What do the clients of my employer have to do with the name change of
IBM's system?  The clients don't care what the system which runs their
application is called, or even what system it happens to be.  The
clients care the system is up - which it is.  

The people who care what the system is called live here in tech land.  I
guess I'm not seeing what relevance the unnecessary and sarcastic
comment about the customers of the company I work for has to do with the
topic at hand here.  Seems rather unnecessary to me.  

If the majority here love twinax, the AS/400 name, reel-to-reel tape,
downloading PTFs over ECS, getting printed and bound manuals - perhaps
I'm associating with the wrong crowd.

--
Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lou Forlini
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Did we have another name change?

At 7:41 AM -0500 4/11/06, Haase, Justin C. wrote:
>Those who don't change will simply be left behind - that's all there is

>to it.

    Thanks for the lecture.  I'll skip mine on those who espouse
meaningless changes simply for the sake of change.  Glad I'm not one of
your clients.

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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