RE: IBM not investing in i5/OS was: iSociety

You're never boring Joe :-)

Long time no see buddy, sorry I missed you in Vegas this year.

I'll have to take a little look at EGL. You got me curious. If you can
affect one person it's all worth it :-)

As a System i (AS400 :-) ) community member I say we already have a
graphical interface for the iSeries - HTML for the web, Windows or
Java/RCP apps for Java. We can still use RPG with all of them and the
world is good.

I don't see any other platforms that do much else other than the above
for interfaces, except of course the iSeries and green screen or other
platforms with Telnet emulators.

I'm still waiting for young Aaron Skywalker to give us GUI for the
iSeries.

I think he's brewing something there in Mankato. Do tell Aaron..... :-)

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message: 10
date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:08:42 -0600
from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: IBM not investing in i5/OS was: iSociety

From: Michael Ryan

zzzzzzzzzzz....as he struggles for the 'delete before reading' button
for the umpteenth time...

<smile>

Sorry I'm boring you, Michael. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems the
consensus
among the community has been that the System i needs a graphical
interface.

EGL is one of the best options for that interface.

Joe