RE: Chasing the wrong target? (was "giving an iSeries system to eachcollege")

["Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

        I follow your statement but what other directions? 

Regards,
Rick

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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
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> Subject: Chasing the wrong target? (was "giving an iSeries 
> system to eachcollege")

<big snip>

> I can't help feeling that we're perhaps chasing the wrong target here.
>
> If you can't rely on graduates to fill the vacancies - where 
> are the System i programmers of the future to come from?
>
> Shouldn't we perhaps be looking in other directions and 
> encouraging IBM to do so too?
>
> Jon Paris