In the good old days IBM had Customer Service Reps and Field Engineers that assisted in the Education. The best we can hope for now is Web presentations.
Regards Otto H Schumacher Transaction and Database Systems - CICS Specialist U. S. Mainframe HP Enterprise Services Telephone +1 864 987 1417 Mobile +1 864 569 5338 Email [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: John Dvorak explains why the z is "doomed" (indirectly) Just one word. "Education" ... IBM cut their own throats (has been discussed on here before) when they stopped the education discount. Ed On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Gerhard Adam wrote: > That's a strange conclusion to draw from that article. Why would you > think that users were more knowledgeable in the early days of MVS? > > Adam > >> OK, he doesn't say anything about the z. I just read that in myself. >> Basically what he is saying is that today's users are brain dead >> morons who can't think. Explains so much. In the remote past, these >> people were predator food. > >> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425840,00.asp > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
