[thelist] learn Websphere (was RE: pre-project planning)

[Joel D Canfield]

> And you don't even want to *know* about the difficulty we 
> have finding  
> good Websphere people[1]. Or Control-M (which I'm still convinced is  
> not much more than a pretty front end to cron :-) )
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
> [1] and remember who my employer is. Even *we* go to the sodding  
> contract market. I'm tellin' ya - learn Websphere, be able to  
> communicate at a near-human level and you're gravy

I'll second that. Maybe third it, even. Last full time job I had a few
years ago, we had a *team* assigned to a single Websphere install, and
in three years I never saw anything like stability or consistency. It
was frightening and a little sad.

joel