Re: New COMMON Conference

Hi Jerry,

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I was an IT manager myself, until recently.. and keeping up with technology changes is hard. You don't want to be left behind, but your shop becomes an unmaintainable, expensive mess if you buy every new thing that comes out.

The reason I thought <vendor>ProfoundUI and/or Genie</vendor> would be a good fit here is that you have existing applications, and rewriting them is a significant time investment. It may be years or decades, depending on the size of your code base, before you can rewrite them all with <vendor>RPGsp.</vendor>

I don't think there's anything wrong with the technology behind RPGsp. I just think you could achieve a lot more in less time with ProfoundUI. Genie will be abel to run your applications as-is. ProfoundUI will be able to convert your applications to modern screens that you can then enhance as you want to add more GUI functionality (stuff you can't do on green screen.)

So I think there's significant bang-for-your-buck in these tools. But RPGsp is a great product, too... the disadvantage is that you have to rewrite all of your existing code. The transition will be slower.




On 8/17/2012 10:30 AM, Gerald Kern wrote:

<vendor>
Jerry... Since you're already working with RPGsp, you might be
interested in tools like Genie and ProfoundUI that make it much easier
to modernize your existing applications. unlike RPGsp, you don't have
to rewrite them to get them online with these other tools.
</vendor>

Hi Scott - We've already downloaded those and did the test drive with Genie
(when we first went with RPGsp almost three years ago) and just a few
months ago with ProfoundUI.

My IT Director always wants us to review options/choices - his feeling is
(and I know this is difficult to argue with) is that we spent the $$ on
RPGsp because that was (at that time) what we thought was the most
efficient way to get to the web. And then Open Access comes along, and it's
advertised as the best thing since sliced bread... (which is what we
thought of RPGsp a few years ago). His main concern is that if we go with
ProfoundUI, what happens if another 'new and improved best thing since
sliced bread' comes along and we have to start re-evaluating products
again... he hates having to go to the CFO and ask for more money for
another product that does what we thought the last one was going to do/did.
We even asked our sales rep if there was a way to get any credit as an
RPGsp customer (no was the answer). The good news is that the IT Director
is open to continuing modernization and he understands the value the i
brings to our business.