So, I just show up to the class, and you and Mr. Bittner will be teaching
MPE (as well as other NT, UNIX, etc.) to OS400?

I'm still unclear as to the discounted rate; IBM is going to send me a bill
for the advertised rate from the WEB page...how do I explain why I only paid
50% of that fee?

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Finley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:31 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Migrating from MPE to AS400
>
> A couple of months ago, IBM held a briefing at their Executive Briefing
> center.  Present 29 developers who are from the HP 3000 MPE world.  This
> was
> not a publicized event.  Those in attendance were invited by me.  The
> meeting was prompted by request made by friends and acquaintances of mine
> who were curious about the iSeries.  We were all interested in what the
> iSeries was and how good a candidate it was to replace the HP 3000.  IBM
> rolled out the red carpet.  We spent two very intense days in a relatively
> free form meeting with IBM technical types and were thoroughly impressed
> with the product. John Burke wrote an article for the HP 3000 Newswire
> describing the event. A byproduct of that meeting was a special offer from
> IBM for this class.
>
> For the last two months we have been porting our migration toolset to the
> iSeries under sponsorship from IBM and their migration partner Sector7.
> We
> demonstrated the prototype to IBM yesterday.  A key person in the success
> of
> the port of this toolset is Bob Bittner of IBM.  He will be the instructor
> for the class.  Moreover, I will help him with the class, my background is
> HP 3000 MPE, UNIX and Windows.  This is a prototype of a class that IBM
> hopes to offer on a regular basis.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Charles Finley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:05 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Cc: Kevin Galloway/Austin/Sector7
> Subject: Migrating from MPE to AS400
>
>
> Charles,
>
> I went to the WEB addresses last night for the IBM Fast Track iSeries
> classes you sent me, and noted two things of interest/concern.
>
> 1).  The language classes (offered on the 4th day) were geared towards C,
> C++ and JAVA (I saw no mention of COBOL or even RPG); the mention of
> previous OS knowledge referred to NT and UNIX.  No where did I see
> anything
> that referred, in any way, to MPE,  hp, 3k, or any other reference that
> would associate the class with "IBM is offering a fast track iSeries
> introduction class for MPE programmers ".
>
> 2). I did not find any 'event code' or other area where I could enter some
> info to receive the 50% discount you mentioned.
>
> I did go ahead and register for the 3 day seminar on the premise that I
> may
> have missed something.
>
> Can you enlighten me/us more?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ray Shahan
>
> "Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon
>
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