RE: Replace SEU with Code/400???

[Bill Erhardt <ERHARDT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why should IBM be dinged for selling a PC based product that "isn't
complete".  I'm under the impression that Microsoft has been using that
approach for years.
As far as problems with Code/400 go - yea we had a few, but the pain was
well worth the benefit.  Coding writing productivity is up at least 30% and
with tools like the navigator, our vendor supplied needless complicated and
convoluted programs are easier to understand.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Russell [SMTP:leslier@datrek.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:56 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Replace SEU with Code/400???
> 
> Why do you call that risky, M$ has done the very same thing since DOS 6.
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Pascal Bellerose <pascal.bellerose@progisys.com>
>     To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>     Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:52 AM
>     Subject: RE: Replace SEU with Code/400???
>     
>     
>     Hello William, 
> 
>             I'm happy you had no problems installing it.  Some of us have
> experienced it, and finally gave up.  IBM has taken a direction that is
> pretty risky.  They entered the PC market with products that they aren't
> finished developing.  They expected the customers to tell them what's
> wrong with it and what's missing, but they're missing a point there,
> they're not asking the right questions to the right people. (see news400's
> august article
> :http://www.as400network.com/resources/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=vie
> warticle&CO_ContentID=7750).
> 
>             The point is they have put CODE/400 on the market before it
> was finished.  They had put only the tools that everybody need.  I've
> heard it was written in smalltalk, and that was one of the major cause why
> it is so slow.  But they will release a new version that is supposed to be
> faster, and more reliable.  Written in C/C++, it is supposed to be the
> next step to a Full windoze interface for AS400 developers.  As I'm
> writing this, there are no more CODE/400 on my workstation.  I had to
> format my HDD to completely erase the references to the VARPG's Java
> toolbox for as400.  Or else I have to set the classpath in each execution
> of a Java class to avoid a "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException" error.
> 
>             All this to say, don't despair, there will come a new world of
> drags, drops and clicks for the AS400.  Will it be for good?  who knows?
> 
>       
> 
>     Pascal Bellerose 
>     Programmeur-analyste / Software developer 
>     pascal.bellerose@progisys.com 
> 
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