Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries

That's a huge issue. Schools are not training new RPG programmers. There's
very little change of that changing either. Would developing on iSeries in
Java, and using new tools and constructs (Websphere) be the answer? I don't
care about hardware myself - it's the OS that matters to me. And I think
OS/400 is the best OS for business. So, if you develop using the tools that
IBM is pushing, you may still have the best of both worlds - the best OS and
lots of available talent writing in Java.

All that being said, I still think RPG is as good a language as any when it
comes to business apps.

On 6/30/06, Raby, Steve <agnictsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually just had a chat with the boss and he is full of praise for the
iSeries, one of the reasons he/they are thinking about it is that he cannot
get decent RPG programmers. "It is very difficult" he was saying "and all
the ones we get are like you, grey haired, all the younger ones are going
for Java and the like."

So what is the answer? I don't know.

Steve

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Onderwerp: Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their
iSeries


It's too bad IBM can't help provide a cost of ownership analysis and/or
bullets of why it's best to keep one of the best business computers in
history.



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From: Raby, Steve <agnictsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:47:41 +0200
Subject: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries


Hello Chaps and Chapesses,

I was on this list last year, and left the company I was with to go
contracting
for GEAC, not knowing of the imminent take over. But I digress, that is
not the
problem, I have recently taken a contract here in the Netherlands at a
place
that has a fairly new iSeries(year or so old I think) on 5.2. The system
they
have was written in house over the last 10-12 years in RPGIII and I am in
the
process of helping them bring it up to date and I am trying to help that
along
further using what little I know of RPGIV/ILE. The guy here is really
enthusiastic to learn all he can from me (in exchange he is teaching me
ASP and
HTML), the problem is now they had a meeting here yesterday and horror of
horrors they are talking of replacing the iSeries with some other system,
oracle
or some such rubbish, over the next couple of years.

So the help we require is how do we convince them not to replace the
iSeries? We
need to build up a business case (I think money is the biggest
consideration for
them) and any help anyone can give us would be most appreciated. It is not
that
I am scared for my contract, there is enough work to keep me going for a
few
years even if they do decide to change, I just dont want to see another
iSeries
shop bite the dust.

I hope this is the right list to mention this on and my apologies if not.

Thanks in advance

Steve Raby
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