Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/27/2010 4:33 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> The secondary effect of a lack of jobs leads to the
> tertiary effects of no curriculum and no internships and thus no reason
> for college kids to invest time.  The lack of an open source alternative
> tunes out those who like and might be tempted to give it a try.

The IBM Academic Initiative is targeted in a way to help on this front, 
but unfortunately by the time folks enter college they have been running 
Windows/Linux/Mac OS and so they naturally gravitate that direction (my 
son thinks the i is cool, but where he works is a Windows/Linux shop so 
he doesn't get much exposure to IBM i or RPG).

We need a couple of large, solid business cases that promote the 
strengths of the i.  I work with K-12 education (mostly) and the 
customers I had that have migrated to Windows world are struggling to 
maintain the server farms that they have on shrinking budgets.  The 2 
and 3 person shops that manage hundreds of users 24/7/365 on the i don't 
get much air time....