RE: webfacing and competing products

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: trevor perry
>
> I say, give that pig some wings - and at least let it ~look~ like it is
> flying!

This is the worst advice anyone could give our industry.  Encouraging
companies to spend money on band aid solutions is as irresponsible an act as
I can imagine.

We need real movement, real solutions.  We need a new interface based on
open standards.  We need breathing room to open our applications up.  We
need to be able to apply a consistent look and feel between legacy
applications on the iSeries and applications written from scratch for the
web.

Let the pig "look" like it's flying?  I hate to be the guy standing
underneath.  And meanwhile the guy selling pigs' wings has a pocketful of
money and is on the lookout for another unsuspecting pig.

Joe