Re: VARPG (was Design Change Requests)

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot accept this point of view, Iseries market is not small.
It's right you can hire dozen of C, C# or Java programmers but you move the
logic somewhere else. If you have tons of working programs on Iseries
written in RPG and all you need is a GUI to make them more suitable for
people used to GUI, VARPG is a solution. I can teach easly to an RPG
programmer how to use VARPG but not to a Java programmer how to write RPG.
So I need a server side programmer and a client side programmer. I like it.
Or it's the client server model that you don't like? Maybe I don't
understand.

Marco
--- Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But think how small the market is...just iSeries shops that want to write
> thick client stuff and don't want to use MS tools or Java. You can't hire
> anyone except an RPG programmer to do it, while you can hire scads of C#
> or
> Java folks. VARPG doesn't make sense, and that's why it hasn't taken off.
> 


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