Re: Why NOT the 400?

["Rick Rayburn" <the400man@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And that's such crap, too. You want us to use your WebSphere product? Sell 
it at the right price.



> From: "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Why NOT the 400?
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:29:14 -0500
>
> Good response, James.  I agree with most of your statement, except the RPG
> part...
>
> There's too much legacy code written in RPG that they need to support,
> according to their long-time philosophy (going back  to S/38 days) of
> "protecting the customer's investment in their application software".
>
> Problem is, they went back on that philosophy several years ago when they
> started charging extra for interactive CPW.  Since then they either want 
> you
> to rewrite everything using WebSphere & Java (and use IBM Global Services 
> to
> do the work), or they want you to pay through th a$$ to keep your legacy
> apps running.
>
> Steve
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