RE: Large screen monitor -- MIDRANGE-L

I have to agree with your point on Windows.  Any software that I get for the
AS/400 should not have any Windows requirements.  Especially when you would
have to install stuff on every pc in order to use it.  This definitely trims
down the products that I have to evaluate.  With all else being equal, a
product that is solely AS/400 based will get my blessing over one with
Windows requirements everytime.

I have found that the closer our environment is to the AS/400, the less
likely that we will have problems.  Someone here suggested a pc based
barcode product that should be used instead of the AS/400 in case the AS/400
went down.  Well, considering the AS/400 doesn't go down unscheduled that
often, it was a bad choice already.  The pc product was extremely slow and
basically was scrapped.  Finally, they are considering the AS/400 options
for doing this.

Keep things on the AS/400 and it will keep running.


-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Bispham [mailto:midrangel@black-and-blue.com]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:23 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Large screen monitor



> >I can see absolutely no
> >benefits from Code/400 - only possible problems.  I have had Code/400
> >for nearly three years and have not installed it - I am content with
> >SEU.
>
> You never installed Code/400, so by definition you never used it, yet you
> see only problems with it. Is this how you evaluate all software?
> If so, why?
>
>   ... Chuck


You didnt address it to me but I can see several reasons for not getting it
out of the box. However, one reason is sufficient for me.

It requires Windows.
I dont think that Windows should be a pre-requisite for programming on the
AS/400.

CODE/400 has some good things like a programmable language syntax checker.
But if IBM added that to SEU - then 'the community' can keep SEU uptodate
with new languages - if 'the community' can see the benefit of doing so.

Disclaimer:
Im not bashing windows - I find it indispensable until I can move everything
to Linux. I just dont want to be tied to windows in order to program on the
AS400. (Isnt the _point_ of programming in Java that it's
platform-independent?)

PS I dont think that Windows should be a pre-requisite for programming on
the AS/400.

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