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Re: Say Hello to IBM System i5!

I would like to quote iSeriesNetwork. In the current month's issue, Dale Agger wrote an article called "A Portrait of iSeries Development" based on a survey of 900 iSeries professionals about iSeries development environments. You can find it here (http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=20405&channel=&subart=)
The article said: "While most shops still rely on SEU/PDM for the programming editor of choice, 21 percent are now reporting substantial use of WDSc and 11 percent substantial use of a third-party application generator." 
and
"Application modernization (both making the right decisions and getting them implemented) is the challenge most often cited as the biggest you face. Yet, 51 percent describe their organization as not yet started on the process."
Where I have been is iSeries customers. I would say the numbers above are skewed low - the 21 percent of substantial WDSc use is not my experience. It may be 21 percent have tried it, but only a few developers inside those 21 percent are using it more than they use SEU & PDM. And, there are many many more shops that did not respond to the survey, because they are not reading industry journals and don't even know there is something beyond PDM. Same experience with the 51 percent - it seems to be higher in my estimation. 

Of course, being a consultant, I don't get to ~every~ shop.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Carpenter" 
Subject: Re: Say Hello to IBM System i5!




Trevor Perry wrote:
I disagree wholeheartedly. The world of the typical green screen developer 
is SEU and PDM, and it takes a LOT of work to have them even attempt WDSC
and RSE. Open-minded is not a paradigm in that world.


Not sure where you've been, but in many shops the tools used by the
developer are chosen by management.  Often sited as part of their
standards, there are issues of support (by other developers) and
integration (for example, change management).  This is bad from the
developers point of view as far as learning new technologies. Sure there
are some who don't want change, but I don't believe this is the majority
and certainly not on these lists.


Keith

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