Re: iSeries Misconceptions

From: Peter Dow <pcdow@yahoo.com>

> Interesting questions. What percentage of PC buyers buy their PC to develop
> a brand new application on it?  Let's see, I've heard the figure 60
million.

more like 300 million.

> as the number of PC's out there. Let's say for the sake of argument that 50
> million run Win-something. And how many developers? A million? That would
be
> 2%. Two million? 4%? So does that make Windows a legacy system?

But Windoze *is* a legacy system.
Anyway your comparison fails because almost every AS/400 show has at least
one resident programmer.


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> From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
>
>
> > From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
> >
> > > >how many NEW customers are using RPG?
> > > >does anybody know about a new customer (that has never had an
> > > >AS/400:iSeries:S/38 box before) that is doing RPG development
> > > >on a new application? Buying an AS/400 to run a vendor package
> > > >written in RPG does not count.
> > >
> > > How many AS400 end-users have bought a system to develop a brand new
> > > application on?
> > >
> > > I think that 95% of AS400 owners bought the system to run a pre-written
> > > application on.
> >
> > if so, then the company that Rob was dealing with is correct: RPG is
> > just for legacy.
>
>
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