Re: VRPG sample apps? -- CODE400-L

Title: Re: VRPG sample apps?

Jon

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Well I wouldn't expect to see much in the Code/400 places - not surprisingly they are for Code/400! which is not the same as VARPG (although they are sold together).

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I know that this list is for code/400 and since it comes together with VARPG I thought one could post VARPG.

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looking at the Code/400 list for signs of life in VARPG is a bit like placing your ear by the feet of a sleeping person and pronouncing them dead because you can't hear their heartbeat!</snip>

I think I am kicked here more.For people who don't have internet in their work places the only source is mailing lists.Also in a place where internet is still expensive.I've been there to VARPG news group but didn't get involved.

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And we're all entitled to those. I just feel that saying a product is dead because IBM doesn't market it is hardly valid. Hell they don't market the 400 worth a damn!

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IBM reps here say 10 times more about VAJAVA than VARPG and it makes my management to think about the product .

I always thought that this list is polite cultured than other mailing lists like Java where you get kicked off a lot.

>> How about in other places.I don't see much traffic in Code-400 List for

that matter.
Well I wouldn't expect to see much in the Code/400 places - not surprisingly they are for Code/400! which is not the same as VARPG (although they are sold together). All the traffic for VARPG goes through the very well supported VARPG newsgroup at news.software.ibm.com. I suggest you check there - you'll find lots of folks in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere in the world.

Other than IBM's VARPG web site the only IBM marketing I've seen is at http://www.iseries.ibm.com/casest/versatil.htm which details a great product

built by an Australian software house using VARPG. Of course it doesn't promote the tool so much as the software ....

>> Just my opinions!!

And we're all entitled to those. I just feel that saying a product is dead because IBM doesn't market it is hardly valid. Hell they don't market the 400 worth a damn! Also as I pointed out above you're looking for "life" in the wrong places - looking at the Code/400 list for signs of life in VARPG is a bit like placing your ear by the feet of a sleeping person and pronouncing them dead because you can't hear their heartbeat!

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