Re: More on AS400 Signon screen

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One reason is because it is the most valuable piece of green screen real
estate we have.  Wasting that wonderfully blank area for a few trivial
fields should go against every grain of  our programmer's soul.

It is the one place we can reach everybody everytime.  It is the closest we
greenscreeners get to having a messageboard or billboard for employees and
stakeholders.

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2002 12:36:47 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: More on AS400 Signon screen

Related to this, I have a pushy question.. (And, BTW, this is not picking on
anyone in particular.)

I was wondering why we so often feel the need to change the signon screen.
Our companies/customers are paying us to provide services that allow their
businesses to operate. How is it that we, the service provider, find that we
can charge our time for modifying the signon screen - something that has
(IMHO) zero business value?

I ask this a lot of my customers when I am refacing applications, and the
general answer is "because we can". I am very interested in other "reasons"
or reasoning. Is this one of the few times we can be artists? What positive
business impact does it have?

Thanks in advance,
Trevor
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trevorp@looksoftware.com