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  • Subject: Re: VRPG And/Or Java
  • From: "Steven Easton" <seaston@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 21:27:51 -0500



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> From: Bob Cozzi <BobCozzi@ibm.net>
> 
> What I believe is that AS/400 developers do not want to do it all 
> themselves. They want IBM to build it into RPG, DDS and CL, and then give

> it to them for free. While Java is "free" it does not do stuff without
the 
> AWT. Each AWT has or will have subtle differences. I hope the AWT toolbox

> for the AS/400 does GUI.  I don't believe AS/400 developers want to build

> routines and tools that they are used to having IBM give them with their 
> products.
> 
> In my experience, existing AS/400 customers do not want to buy stuff that

> IBM doesn't "give" them. Case in point, IBM just can't seem to move 
> CODE/400. And my product, CodeStudio was priced at about 1/3 the price of

> Code/400 and I shipped just under 1,000 copies. I don't have the numbers
on 
> similar products by other vendors, but I know they have similar issues.
> 
True, maybe it is because the boss wants to buy solutions and not tools. 
IS managers can get a new FASTER AS400 because it helps the bean counters,
but can't get a CASE tool because the payback is more than 3 months away.

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