There is an increasing demand for AionDS programmers, according to Allen Childress. Companies and agencies have had successes over the last decade and are now implementing second-generation applications, esp. in scheduling, configuration, help desks, data mining, fraud detection, and process control. Salaries are good, since demand is outpacing supply. . [, comp.ai, 9/4/96.]

Syntel (Detroit) says it can't find the 500 programmers that it needs, so it's going for an IPO partly to get the stock options that talented programmers want. The company was hiring foreign-born programmers, but got in trouble with the US government for paying reduced wages. (It still maintains a Bombay facility with satellite and fiber-optic links to the US.) "Anybody who is qualified at all is not only gainfully employed, but his or her phone is ringing every week with job offers. There will be a shortage of nearly 100K computer programmers and engineers through the year 2000." Much of Syntel's business during that time will be correcting code that can't handle the millennium change. Companies that don't address the problem now will soon find that no programmers are available. [Detroit News. SJM, 9/6/96, 1C.]

"2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a byte; come on coders, TYPE! TYPE! TYPE!" [Mike Swaim , 6/96.]

SIGADA-OOWG is an object-oriented working group of ACM SIGAda. Send subscription requests to David Brookman . [, NEW-LIST, 7/17/96.]

The Code Warrior Users' Group will be a Web-based hangout for Mac Codewarrior programmers. Contact Michael K. Neylon to volunteer help with setting up web pages or learning teams. [comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior, 8/19/96. Bill Park.]

The X Advisor is a monthly technical journal for X Window System professionals. Free online version at . [Steven Mikes , newjour, 6/28/96.]