Re: The future of VARPG

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear you Jon.  I know you and Susan poured your heart into making 
VARPG a sustainable product and made every effort to give it traction 
with RPG shops.  I just never understood why it didn't catch on.  Gads, 
it worked, and worked well, long before Java was even in a usable status.

Ah well...


btw, I moved to southeastern Oklahoma, about 100 miles North of Dallas.  
If you can ever end up in Dallas on the third Tuesday of any month, I 
know a user group that would love to hear you speak, so long as the 
dollars stay in the range of cheep.    :)



Jon Paris wrote:
>  >> It doesn't take a very big IBM staff to keep VARPG in sync with Windows
> and with RPG, ...
>
> Booth - I think Claus and John and many other IBMers would disagree with
> you.  Its UI hasn't moved beyond Win98 - it still hasn't got an XP look let
> alone Vista.  That (as I understand it) is due to the owners of the UI
> builder components having moved off in other directions.  VARPG had to go
> with them (which required too much resource) or stay where they were and try
> to maintain the old code base.  The problem with that is that in the absence
> of a large user base (let alone a _paying_ user base - but let's not go
> there) there was no way to get enough funding to move the UI forward.  They
> did scrape together the $s to upgrade the compiler to about V5R2 (I think) -
> but that wasn't going to continue forever.  When the inevitable decision to
> discontinue CODE development came that just put another nail in the coffin.
>
>
> Maybe they should sell it off to someone or open source it.  I don't think
> it uses any active IBM proprietary stuff anymore - unless it gens W-code -
> not sure about that.   
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
> www.Partner400.com 
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