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Trevor,
I am a huge proponent of the system. I was just reporting my
recent observations in my little corner of the world. The conclusion
I have come to, is that even the Midrange Faithful are NO LONGER faithful!
IMHO, that is HUGE! The bread and butter income from this platform
is not from new accounts. It's from the already converted. If they
feel that they are be abandoned in any way or if it becomes less than
cost effective to stay with the platform, inertia will probably not
retain them.
Bringing PHP (and any popular PASE apps) to the i is a brilliant
way of getting additional applications to the system. But, the
biggest obstacles still remain for the many million lines of existing
code: How can John Doe software vendor and Jill production shop
refactor their system or develop new systems by leveraging their
existing software and their in-house talent???
This is the reality that I'm dealing with. I can't just tell the
client that he now has to hire a PHP guy to maintain his new
system. Screen scraping is a short term solution at best. 3rd party
solutions are not cheap and should not be necessary. It's about time
that one of the promises of the box (simplicity) be applied to a very
basic functionality: The GUI. This is what my clients want to
see. I can't deliver that in a cost effective manner now.
-mark
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