This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C20BA6.76D32160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's time for Powerhouse.Net !!! I remember when PC Powerhouse came out. Cognos positioned and priced it as a product to offload develop from minicomputers so it was around $2000 canadian. If they had priced it at the same level of Dbase they might have owned that market. It shouldn't be that hard to .Net enable quick and quiz. -----Original Message----- From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu] On Behalf Of Kent Heatherington Sent: June 4, 2002 9:56 AM To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu Subject: IS PowerHouse Dead Quite agree with Bob's rant on Recruiters. Its unbelievable what is being asked for for most jobs/contracts these days. And before anyone thinks retraining will get them working again, let me share my experience. I completed 4 Cognos BI courses in Impromptu/PowerPlay and thinking that with several years of Oracle, and over 15 years general IT work in all sorts of things would get me working. NOPE ! Must have 2-5 years experience ! To add to the recruiter bashing, I don't even think they look at emails anymore. They are just so swamped with out of work IT workers (in this Gov Proclaimed best economy ever !) that I have yet to receive anything but automated responses. To get back to the original thread, IS POWERHOUSE DEAD ? I believe what we are doing in this forum now is simply trying to establish the time of death ! Kent Heatherington ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C20BA6.76D32160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C20BA6.76D32160--It’s time for Powerhouse.Net = !!!
I remember when PC Powerhouse came = out. Cognos positioned and priced it as a product to offload develop from = minicomputers so it was around $2000 canadian. If they had priced it at the same level of = Dbase they might have owned that market.
It shouldn’t be that hard to = .Net enable quick and quiz.
-----Original Message-----
From: = powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu] On Behalf Of Kent Heatherington
Sent: June 4, = 2002 9:56 AM
To: = powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: IS PowerHouse = Dead
Quite agree with Bob's rant on Recruiters. Its = unbelievable what is being asked for for
most jobs/contracts these days.
And before anyone thinks retraining will get them working again, = let me share my experience.
I completed 4 Cognos BI courses in Impromptu/PowerPlay and = thinking that with
several years of Oracle, and over 15 years general IT work in = all sorts of things would
get me working. NOPE !
Must have 2-5 years experience !
To add to the recruiter bashing, I don't even think they look at = emails anymore. They
are just so swamped with out of work IT workers (in this Gov = Proclaimed best economy ever !)
that I have yet to receive anything but automated = responses.
To get back to the original thread, IS POWERHOUSE DEAD = ?
I believe what we are doing in this forum now is simply trying = to establish the
time of death !
Kent Heatherington