When I last looked for an alternative position (read job) I found a possible three positions. Like most multivalue professionals I've wondered what was to become of the MV world, and my security in the furure...
Why? The multivalue world has always been a closed shop, a dying (or at least never heard of) platform. Sure the universities stateside are big on using it for adminitration, but how much impact does that have on the students going through? Zilch. What we hear of is the SQL's, Oracle's, Java's, and the like... Now... We have the possibility of every little script kiddy getting to grips with the multivalue world, probably for nefarious purposes, no doubt, but the word will be going out - an open source database that is easy enough to set up, has immense potential, is "freely" available. Wow! Our future does look rosy... OpenQM! Yes! Yes! Yes! (oh, yes, I know that - IBM released UniVerse personal edition - that, personally, was more of an insult, one had to try build systems around a max modulo of 10000, and imagine trying to explain the concept of modulo in the first place, and that - there has been a move by Revelation's OpenInsight to train students at reduced or no cost, with the view to creating an awareness, but too little, too late, methinks!) -----Original Message----- From: Doug Dumitru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <PRE> --------------------------------------------------------- GWK BEPERK/LIMITED (REG: 1997/022252/06) POSBUS 47 PO BOX 8730 DOUGLAS Direkteure/Directors: NB Jacobs, FJ Lawrence, J v/d S Botes, JH Coetzee, JGD Smit, JF Jacobs, AO M|ller, JW Smit, JP Snyman, JG Stander, JH van Dyk(MD/BD), JG Jacobs, A M|ller, M van Zyl, Sekr/Secr: E van Niekerk. Hierdie e-pos is onderworpe aan 'n vrywaring beskikbaar by: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp This e-mail is subjected to the disclaimer that can be viewed at: http://www.gwk.co.za/DisclaimerVrywaring.asp</PRE> ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
