RE: Green screen to GUI

> > It runs on the workstation.  You are correct of course, as 
> always.  But with
> > rare exceptions, what iSeries workstation today is not Windows?
> 
we are are running some desktops with linux here (debian) and are using tn5250. 
worked out very good.

> For the vast majority of Windows programmers, it doesn't make 
> sense to 
> learn RPG. They're already familiar with languages like C++, 
> or VB. Or if 
> they're more modern, they're working in languages like C# and 
> Java.  Why 
> would they want to convert to RPG?

i fully agree with this. it simply doesn't make sense to switch to a 
tool/language which can't do half the stuff you allready can do with the 
tools/languages you have or know.

i'm mostly programming java and for me VARPG is no option. too limited. the 
user knows what he can expect from a gui application because the see things in 
other products. and with VARPG you just can't do it. so why would i want to 
switch to VARPG. and i don't think that authorization and deployment is so 
easy. at our site we have hundreds of clients/users local and remote and i 
don't see a simple strategy for deployment. web applications are so more 
simpler to deploy.