Re: Why is the iSeries so slow-New generation in IT -- MIDRANGE-L

<quote>The iSeries developer, with all of the development and
applications experience, does not have the skills to respond
to the needs of the user...management is looking to the PC
community..</quote>.

Don - I would respectfully disagree with your assertion. As a 20 yr
consultant
I have worked in many shops, and I see a different picture.
Management more often refuses to invest in tools or training for iSeries
staff.
Keep the iSeries staff dealing with current projects, while bringing in
pc oriented staff (often no development background). Over & over I
have seen this. RPG programmers told "no ILE, no CGI, no ODBC,
no Java, no tools". Just support the existing apps. In 1999 we did demos
of rpg/cgi (easy400 a free tool!) to many dp managers at customers. Like
deer in
headlights. The people who cannot think outside the box are not on the
technical side - it's the other side of the table.
btw-i'm still laughing at the web developer who wanted to email his database
updates to our iSeries, 1 email for every order, to support an e-commerce
site.
jim (and back to work.. no ile, no triggers, no nothing fancy...)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don McIntyre" <dnmcin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Why is the iSeries so slow-New generation in IT


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Jensen" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Windows blows up more, but has a billion times the tools,
> > particularly end-user oriented tools.
> >
> I agree.  My point was not to put down PC's or even PC developers, but to
> say that software development is moving to PC developers because the skill
> base for new technology is on the PC.  The iSeries developer, with all of
> the development and applications experience, does not have the skills to
> respond to the needs of the user.  Nor are many putting out the effort to
do
> so.  Therefore, management is looking to the PC community for their
> development.
>
> PC's are definitely have their place in IT.   They are necessary for
client
> side applications and have tons of excellent  (and cool) development
tools,
> but I don't see them even close to the iSeries in performance &
reliability.
> Lack of iSeries technical skills is forcing the issue though.
>
> >which are not dissertations, but this one was a little too
> >funny in its placement.
>
> Note that I started a new thread subject with my response.  It came to
mind
> partly because I felt a little ornery, and also due to the many postings
> that have been made arguing that the 'PC is equal to the iSeries in
> processing capabilities.  I feel that a lot of this argument is coming
from
> the younger PC crowd that hasn't gone through the years of expecting and
> experiencing the reliability & performance that the iSeries provides.
>
> Don
>
>
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