Oh my gosh don't get me started on that.... No we just elected a
governor whose main platform was to increase budget for Education ...
guess what one week into office and universities in the state have to
pay money back to the state. Our larger universities had to give back in
the range of 20-30 million dollars down to us the smallest who had to
give back 4 million. This year he has asked for the universities to give
back an additional 3% more. Not a good idea but thanks for suggesting.

Jim Dodds
Systems Programmer
Kentucky State University
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502 597 6114


-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Chase, John
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Dodds, Jim
> 
> Yes you are on the same ERP system we have because I have talked to
your
> school in the past. It's funny that we were going to join Marist, who
> has IBM assisting in this venture, to get the new ERP system to run on
> Z/Linux. After they get it to work and I am sure they will and in a
few
> years the ERP vendor will bless it and it will be much cheaper to run
on
> Z/Linux. So by then management will have too much money and ego
invested
> to be able switch back.

Your tax dollars at "work"?

It may or may not be feasible to try to "educate" your legislators.  If
KY is anything like IL, the mantra seems to be, "The more money we spend
per student, the better the education they will get."  I.e., "education"
is _THE_ sacred cow.

I'm probably just overly cynical when I recognize a difference between
"providing an education" and "educating".

    -jc-

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