RE: Some fodder for marketing, perhaps

 >> regardless, perhaps, of what the market wants.

I'm not a fan of GUI for GUI's sake.  I think there is still a role for a
character based interface but end-users disagree.

Ask any application or tool producer if they can sell a 5250 version of
their product - or if they are still investing in green screen apps.  I
don't think you'll find any.  End users decided long ago that they wanted a
graphical interface.

Sure some existing customers still want 5250 apps, but they are in the
minority and probably aren't upgrading hardware and still run S/36 code.  So
even if they had threaded 5250 apps (which I really doubt the utility of
anyway) they wouldn't buy/write them anyway.

Jon Paris
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