Re: An odd thing

[Jon Paris <paris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> "But in terms of a shop that has NO COBOL staff, and DOES have RPG staff,
isn't the recommendation of COBOL just a little suspicious, or at least
strange? Would YOU recommend that a non-COBOL shop use COBOL? No need to
answer?I know you would not." <<

As I said earlier - no one is suggesting that ths customer _use_ Cobol.  The
customer would be using VA Generator, which just happens to generate Cobol on
the AS/400.

To put it another way - would you suggest that any customer wishing to use RPG
should have MI  (RPG III) or W-code (RPG IV) programmers on staff before they
could use the RPG compiler?  Of course not.

If we're going to discuss this issue, the comparison should be to Synon 2E or
Obsydian, Lansa, Magic, etc. etc.

Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
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