>>Seems in this new 21st Century I get to monitor all the Announcement letters on my own and look out for Ole #1 (the new way). > >I, honestly, don't understand the question. >Aren't we responsible for understanding the requirements for each upgrade, regardless of the product? > This is a fair question. I now believe I was pampered by my previous IBM SE who wanted to ensure I knew a new version or release of something was available so I would order it ASAP; those are always a bit more expensive and thus was seeing the revenue increased from my account.
Back in the summer the person left after getting a great offer ($$$) from Microsoft. Microsoft formed a team with many ex-AMDAHL techies and sales types to target mainframes and conversions to Windows. Hey, I told the person to "go for it", learn exactly how it can be done and if so, come back and explain it to me. The person is still trying to grasp it all. An interesting aspect of working for Microsoft, is all the employees are required to run the latest development version of Windows on their laptops and PC's (per top management). Have no fear, I am told 6-8 crashes a day can do wonders for convincing mainframe accounts this is the system of future. No one told me looking after the customer was now the solemn job of each installation. Guess the old way was so "20th Century"; although it was indeed a nice touch. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
