Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

Buck is on to something here. Are we, as a group, using the product the way we should or are we limiting ourselves with our own falsely imposed constraints?

In reading Buck's comment, I'd concur that Rdp does in fact blow the doors off SEU. It is a great product. I do love what it does; it works, and it has so much more to offer than SEU. Mostly, that "more" includes a future.

Where am I going with this? Well, it also occurs to me that Rdp no doubt does way more than i know, including lots of features I don't yet realize I need but we as an interest group are staying stuck in the 90s.

Where are the Youtube tutorials on how to get the most of Rdp? Where are the web sites with examples, screen shots, and tips and solutions? Where is a ibrary of snippets (whatever they are)? I just did a Google search and what little there is is 2+ years old.



On 12/17/2012 2:00 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 12/17/2012 11:57 AM, James Lampert wrote:

[regarding PC-based development tooling for IBM i]

As to tools, the fact that a tool is newer does not necessarily
make it better. A Dremel motor-tool may be a faster tool for
drilling tiny holes than a pinvise, but that doesn't make it
a better one; a pinvise has a lot more control. Or you can
plow grooves and dadoes with a plow-plane, or a table-saw,
or a router; with any of them, there are tradeoffs.

I think we have unfortunate vocabulary in the software industry.
Calling Eclipse a 'tool' is one example. I don't think a hardware
analogy really works here, and the vocabulary isn't helping us with the
discussion.

RDP blows the doors off of SEU, and I say that as a 25+ year veteran of
SEU. And frankly, it isn't a GUI vs green screen thing for me, because
the green screen XEDIT blew the doors off of SEU in the 1990s and SEU
has not changed since then.

This isn't a theoretical 'throw out the old at your peril' sort of
thing, it's an actual end-user's experience report, and it's not a
decision made on an emotional need to squee over the latest and
greatest, but on decades of actual use. RDP is not merely newer than
SEU, it's better than SEU. Yes, this is my opinion, and I it's my hope
that it is read as another data point and not a divisive line between
'us' and 'them.'

--buck