> > Someone in the audience asked where they can get print drivers for S/390
> > Linux.
> > His response was to "find some college kid that knows c and linux and pay
> > him a few bucks..."
> > I really couldn't believe that one....not exactly what support-conscience
> > managers
> > want to hear !!!!!

> That's not only disappointing, but irresponsible.
:
However - a major factor in the adoption of the Linux strategy by IBM's top management 
is the
advocacy of Irving Wladawsky-Berger.

I've forgotten the exact expression he used, and it was certainly intended as 
hyperbole - I
don't know to what degree - but it was something like: "We have a shortage of mainframe
skills.  Imagine what it would be like if we had access to hundreds of thousands of 
college
kids, all of whom would programme for Cola."

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  Phil Payne
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