Re: Adoption of RPG OA

Jon

The buy-to-try problem is huge, in my mind. I will be making some noise at an ISV meeting, and I know of 2 other advisory groups that are pushing back hard to IBM on this very matter. And I have been told that IBM is seriously looking at the trial demo issue.

This is all so trying!! Pun also intended!

Vern

On 3/11/2011 8:48 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:24 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

But has there been any adoption of RPG OA and the 3rd party vendor
handlers and tools? Is there a market developing that will sustain the
vendors? Anyone actually using a 3rd party handler, or even installed
one for evaluation?

I can't speak for any of the vendors, but I know that it had a profound (pun intended) effect on Profound's business last year. Their web site includes a number of customer comments and their forums would certainly appear to indicate significant usage of the product. Their DDS to UI convertor comes out of beta any time now and that will make the switch easier. I believe that Asna also have a number of customers for their new Wings product as do looksoftware.

That said - IBM's failure to make a trial version of OA available undoubtedly makes it very difficult for people evaluate the products. You have to order and pay for OA before you can even load and try a demo. In other words you need to be pretty darned certain you are going to buy one of them before moving ahead. I'm surprised that the ISVs haven't beaten them up more about this but it may be that they don't have the leverage with Rational that they have with IBM Rochester.


Jon Paris