Re: iSeries Misconceptions

Good news and bad news...

I have a legacy 400 user, with applications written in COBOL in the
financial industry.

They're previous application generated written reports, to which the
traders reacted and made trades.

They wanted to move the app to real time, and conducted a search for the
most cost effective platform to a new interactive application.  The
solution was AS/400 green screen.  They didn't care about GUI.  They wrote
the entire app in COBOL green screen.  Ultimately it cost over $1M to
write.  The ROI calculation as off badly.  The ROI was 4 days!!!!!

They refuse to be used as a reference account!  They consider the existence
of the application to be a corporate secret, and any competitor who would
get this info to be a competitive pressure.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax

http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com





                                                                                
                                         
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At 05:22 PM 8/5/2001, you wrote:
>how many NEW customers are using RPG?
>does anybody know about a new customer (that has never had an
>AS/400:iSeries:S/38 box before) that is doing RPG development
>on a new application? Buying an AS/400 to run a vendor package
>written in RPG does not count.

How many AS400 end-users have bought a system to develop a brand new
application on?

I think that 95% of AS400 owners bought the system to run a pre-written
application on.

JMHO,

david


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