Re: GUI-400

["JacksonLea; A unit of Jason, Incorporated" <jacklea@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:33 PM 11/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
                                                
I have quite a few terminals that I call "convenience terminals."  The
users of these terminals need them to do their job, but there is no
advantage to giving them GUI or a PC.  They generally have a single menu
with 4 or 5 options to run.  A good example is the receiving clerk.  He
receives inventory via a inventory receipt program, has another program to
locate inventory storage locations, and a program or two to create
inventory I.D. labels.  He neither needs nor wants GUI or a PC.  Green
screen twinax is totally adequate.  The blanket rush to GUI and replacing
twinax terminals is over sold.  Some users can defiantly benefit from GUI
and PC over "green screen" twinax.  Some can not.  The marketing weasels
strike again.
 


>
>Hi everybody,
>
>Thanks to everyone who pitches in on this forum. This has been my newest
>form of upgrading myself. The place I work for is in the process of
>converting all the green screens on our AS/400 to Windows using GUI-400
>from Seagull. I attended the course and am of the opinion that its a very
>tedious process and results in only a cosmetic face lift to an application.
>Does anybody think otherwise? Are their any other tools that can achieve
>more than re-painting the green screen? Also, personally, the green screen
>is not so bad and I could live with if I were a user. Any thoughts?
>
>TIA.
>
>
>Unni
>
>
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