Re: V5 availability

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Jon.Paris@hal.it <Jon.Paris@hal.it>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: V5 availability


>
> >> No, no, no... we wanted NATIVE... not something that required yet
>another operating system and machine...
>
>To be fair to IBM Bruce, I'm not convinced that was really spelt out.
>Every time native GUI came up in soundoff or elsewhere, someone (often many
>someones) would tell IBM not to bother but simply to improve the Windows
>interface. Windows, Windows, Windows.  That is what they were told and that
>is what they have given us.
>

I can remember some concentrated, specific, spelling meetings...   ;-)
But yes, in soundoff, they asked for that and got it, now they want to go to
soundoff and say "but that's not really what we wanted"... just like
users...

> >> you (and probably everybody else on this list) knows that it takes
>almost no time at all to produce a command against the API.
>
>Au contraire - I know that it costs a bunch of bucks to do this.  There's
>the panel itself, the CPP, the help text, etc. etc. not to mention testing
>it in a variety of usage situations.  Don't forget that while you and I use
>English (well I do anyway <grin>) that over 60% of AS/400 users don't.  I
>don't know how many languages the system stuff is translated into these
>days but it is well into double digits.  The screen and help text as well
>as any unique messages all have to be translated - it ain't cheap.
>


SEE! Exactly. They use panels.... we just write command source and say
"CRTCMD"... POOF! we be done... maybe if they stopped developing the 400 on
and MVS platform and used some of the tools they gave us on the 400...

I'm just saying the beauracracy (sic?) that is behind all their "command
development" makes it expensive. Maybe if they (and I hate to use this
expression) thought outside the box on this...

maybe not...

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman


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