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I suppose though, that if Microsoft had ten of thousands of users (maybe hundreds of thousands) who were running telnet types of applications and were clamoring for multi-thread support that they *might* consider it.

I guess it is a case of market vs marketing. In this case the IBM marketing juggernaut is trying to keep up with MS with bigger, "better" and cooler GUI tools/apps regardless, perhaps, of what the market wants. If your customers asked for a simple 5250 application to perform some function, would you build and deliver a .jsp or a cgi application that was web based? Seems to me that if the lions share of the market demands a particular function, you respond to that market or die.

I think the biggest question is: What is the state of iSeries applications these days? Is it still "5250 is where it is at?" or is it "The web way is the only way?" Yeah, I know that it isn't that cut and dried. The customer, with our counsel, needs to chose what is right but I wonder what the trend *really* is. If 5250 is going away because our customers no longer see value in maintaining those types of apps then IBM is rightly responding to that trend. If however, the iSeries market is really satisfied with 5250 based apps (or text based apps) then perhaps that market should be exploited more.

I guess what I am saying Jon, and I don't really disagree with your statement, is that unlike MS, where the GUI is king, iSeries apps are a bit more heterogeneous and perhaps, just perhaps, this would be a situation where breathing some additional life into text based application development might benefit IBM and the customer, regardless of where MS is going.

Just some New Years musings.....

Pete Helgren


Jon Paris wrote:

>> hopefully in V5R4 the single threaded restriction on jobs in qinter will
be lifted.

Steve - your record is broken! <grin>

Expect to see RPG be fully thread safe in a future release (_not_ V5R4) but
I don't see QINTER changing.  Why on earth would IBM do it (apart from
keeping you happy).  It makes absolutely no sense to improve function in the
dumb terminal area.  They are investing heavily in getting everybody OFF
dumb terminals - QINTER isn't used for anything but dumb terminals - so why
would they spend a cent on it?  It's a bit like saying that MS should invest
millions in creating a new teletype interface to windows!

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com
www.RPGWorld.com



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