Re: Green-screen versus browser

[Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Booth-

I've been tempted by VARPG but I see deployment issues with a large
remote population (I might be showing my ignorance).  And I haven't
seen much of an IBM commitment to it, so I wonder if it's a dead end.

-reeve

On 4/25/05, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You have no idea how upsetting it is to me personally that we gripe and moan
> about IBM and what they offer, then they give, literally give, us VARPG
> which works, and the iSeries community  turns it down with barely a look.
> Of course there are othe solutions too, which is right and proper, but if a
> company has RPG programmers, a good data base they like, and are using
> Windows, VARPG is a much easier growth step than Visual Basic, plus you get
> deliverables in weeks instead of months.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: 04/25/05 11:19:48
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Green-screen versus browser
> 
> Hi Reeve,
> 
> >...Nobody wants
> a system where all/most of the programs are green screen.  It's ABSOLUTELY
> KILLING US.  And IBM has given us not one, but SEVERAL ways to make them
> GUI and for some reason we're not doing it.
> ...
> 
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