Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>IBM blew it 20-30 years ago when they stopped being generous to colleges and >>universities. Looking at the short term.
>You are SO right! >Shortly after I graduated from Waterloo, IBM stopped that programme; shortly >after that the University of Waterloo dropped COBOL as a requirement for co-op >students. >Bingo! Bango! Bongo! The financial sector (Ontario & Toronto, at least) went >elsewhere for co-op, or stopped their programmes, completely. >Now, University of Waterloo computer graduates are PC weinies, web-masters, >and gamers. >University of Waterloo's defence? >"We are here to teach. Not to prepare future employees." >BS! I went to Waterloo to become employable with the best credentials >available in the 1970's & 80's. >Sorry for the topic drift, but I do think it all stemmed from IBM dropping >their generosity. While I agree 100% with the overall sentiment, in UofW's case, it didn't help that they hired a new Provost in the mid-80s who hated IBM. HESC wasn't gone yet, but his arrival turned the corner on IBM's presence at that school. -- ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
