Re: IBM getting rid of RPG

[John Rockwell <midson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As luck would have it, I have just taken on an assignment that may allow me to 
return
the favor.  The company I'm working with is looking for a brand new ERP system 
and you
can bet it's going to take a lot of convincing to go with the AS400 this time.  
If I've
got to learn a new language/software package anyway, the gate's going to be 
wide open
for all vendors, regardless of the machine they're pushing..

William A Pack wrote:

>         I liked Mr. Rockwell's comments.  IBM is trying everything to get 
>people to
> abandon current applications and migrate to something they want to sell,
> like Java or Domino.  They are good alternatives for new apps, but if I have
> a business running for 5-10 years on good software, why should I change just
> because IBM wants me to?  IBM is going to piss off quite a few customers,
> who will remember the favor that IBM did them by jacking up the cost of
> interactive workload.  If they have to change applications, my guess is they
> will be implemented on a cluster of Wintel boxes, just to return the favor
> to IBM.  I really want to now the technical reasons IBM has for costing on
> interactive features.  They claim it is harder to do 5250 now that 3 years
> ago.  Why?
>         The System 3/x family was sold as a programmerless systems.  The 
>AS/400 was
> sold as a system that will maintain investment in applications and business
> practices.  Now, the only thing that sets the 400 apart from the sea of
> Intel based clones is the single manufacturer.   Looks like the future
> belongs to Wintel and C#.
>
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