On 13 Sep 2006 11:26:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
There is one person who is going around saying that
installing a
system will be drag and drop. If it really ever does come
to that
the profession will have lost to the wintel platform.
We'll still be needed to design backup, security, and
customization.
If a drag-and-drop installation works, how can you
consider it a loss? Do you think things should be kept
more complicated than necessary just so more of us can have jobs?
Actually, we're almost there. Isn't IBM still
offering (for a fee) the service of "restore these tapes
and IPL"?
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