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As pointed out in Joe Pluta's "Future King" article, IBM's attitude and strategy for the iSeries is changing, and will lead to a larger user base. Our company is an iSeries ISV, and our revenue last year was 2.5 times greater than the year before. Our primary message to customers was that we're committed to the iSeries platform, and we're making good progress at modernizing and extending their applications. This message has been well-received. Another message that has been well received is that our applications are open-source. We and our business partners, and even customers contribute to an open-source repository that any member may download. Our primary customer base is in the public sector [K-12 Education], but open-source collaboration could probably work in the private sector too. It seems that advantageous economies of scale could be achieved by IT departments of small companies if they were to participate in a consortium, along with other small companies, while retaining independence. In that way, small companies could have more of a collaborative relationship with multiple IT vendors, rather than a relationship where a single large IT vendor retained a lock on the applicaton and customer base, essentially enabling them to force customers to migrate to platforms or technologies which were primarily in the vendor's interest. The iSeries has an essential role in that it's the only platform that successfully integrates so many otherwise disparate technologies. Nathan.
As pointed out in Joe Pluta's "Future King" article, IBM's attitude and strategy for the iSeries is changing, and will lead to a larger user base. Our company is an iSeries ISV, and our revenue last year was 2.5 times greater than the year before. Our primary message to customers was that we're committed to the iSeries platform, and we're making good progress at modernizing and extending their applications. This message has been well-received. Another message that has been well received is that our applications are open-source. We and our business partners, and even customers contribute to an open-source repository that any member may download. Our primary customer base is in the public sector [K-12 Education], but open-source collaboration could probably work in the private sector too. It seems that advantageous economies of scale could be achieved by IT departments of small companies if they were to participate in a consortium, along with other small companies, while retaining independence. In that way, small companies could have more of a collaborative relationship with multiple IT vendors, rather than a relationship where a single large IT vendor retained a lock on the applicaton and customer base, essentially enabling them to force customers to migrate to platforms or technologies which were primarily in the vendor's interest. The iSeries has an essential role in that it's the only platform that successfully integrates so many otherwise disparate technologies. Nathan.
, listed myself on Dice for consulting or hire and applied aggressively for anything I could identify, but to this point there's been very little job action. My last job was three years at a retailer, before that four years at a pharmaceutical wholesaler, but I wouldn't have been in position to get those jobs had it not been for the exposure I got breaking into the AS/400 in consulting work. On the one hand I'm loyal, on the other there's only so much money companies can dump into large development projects before they need to have something that works and cut back the development costs.
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