In a message dated 4/11/2006 10:46:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Universities that don't place graduates in jobs don't stay in business long. If your place of employment cares about zSeries skills, it is important to make that known to local colleges and universities, to offer internships, and to participate in job fairs and finally hire some of the grads. If your place of employment isn't doing that, it is telling the colleges and universities that are its pipeline that zSeries skills aren't important. >> Thanks for replying. For those of you who don't subscribe to other lists Harry has quite a few on his belt to include the MVS-OE list. Guess the point is, "it's a two way street". IBM appears to have sloughed off any kind of incentive to .edu's to participate. Dropped HESC, quit bidding on new systems, sales reps outsourced to the hinterlands and compete among themselves for crumbs. Don't have low end or mid-range system that's competitive with anything. This might change but it's woefully late. Was over at my sister's last night and her teenager was having trouble with his PDA(Tungston II). We pecked around a little and got it's blue tooth talking to his cell phone and in a few minutes were able to download up load all around the square and get to AOL. So the exposure starts much younger and is continuous 'til they get to 'higher ed'. Now who's gonna opt for JCL and TSO after they've been ICON'd and auto updated for a decade? The CS departments dropped ALC and COBOL at least 12 years in favor of C++, .html, and JAVA. Ugh I get tired of typing this stuff in it's painful.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
