Re: CASE Tools for the AS/400

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From: John Ross <JRoss@poboxes.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: 17 July 2000 04:25
Subject: Re: CASE Tools for the AS/400


>snip
>I would like to know how many companies bought a case tool and quit using
it
>and why?
>
>John Ross


We bought Powerhouse (Cognos) and gave up for following reasons-
Poor execution time on 400, lots of 400 resource needed for development, not
as 'cross platform' as we were led to believe (you really had to recode to
run in Windows & be a C expert), suppliers lack of 400 knowledge,
suppliers tendency to blame IBM and/or 400 for shortcomings and lack of
clear future development plans for the product.

We now use another CASE tool but because we are the LANSA partner for
Ireland I feel I cannot comment further in this list but I would advise
prospective CASE customers to look for real cross platform functionality and
good Internet capabilities.

Mike Dunnion
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MDC Information Systems
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Ireland      Tel: +353 1 6791330
http://www.mdc.ie
mdcis@iol.ie




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