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Unfortunately offshoring isn't going away any time soon and until tech employees band together in a united front and use ALL means available to get our government to level the playing field for tech jobs so that hiring the h1b or outsourcing to whereever isn't the cheap way out we will continue to lose the very jobs that would help end this recession. IBM is but one of the many companies going this route - what really frosts me is bailing out companys that offshore like Chrysler and use the very tax dollars from (us and) those laid off by Chysler to fund their bailout.

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Join the club, we were purchased by a larger company and by this fall the Iseries as well as myself are both being kicked out the door. The outlook for Iseries RPG jobs looks grim when you only see two or three RPG jobs but hundreds of Java and .Net jobs. Many of these jobs do not include the Iseries either. I guess I better start rehearsing, "Do you want fries with that?"

Here in Europe, the demand for iSeries jobs versus Java / .NET / SAP / Oracle is roughly about the same for all types, that is 1 to 20. Yes, 20 Java or 20 Oracle jobs asked for every 1 iSeries job.

I advocate a long time the death of the iSeries, but the current 1931 like world wide financial crisis will hasten it's demise. Oh, and don't give me that crap of constantly rebooting windows servers and resource hogging java applications. In the paste decade, I've had my fair share of (someone else) monolithic RPG spaghetti code needing never ending tweaking and fixing that the maintenance cost alone was motive enough to rewrite and migrate it to another platforms.