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Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What you're missing is how well the business people are protected from the
techies. They could care less about zillion character object names. They
just want the system to work.

That is, until you need to operate with other companies that have moved forward.

See the other threads regarding interoperating with Web Services
regarding FedEx Tax rates.

And then, instead of moving forward using proper technologies (that
are available on the IBM i!) like Java to interoperate with Web
Services, they stay with crude hacks like HTTP API and handwritten XML
readers (that are nowhere near a proper XML interpreter).

Business people that do not want to spend money on maintaining a
proper, current infrastructure will lose. Not in this quarter, but
maybe in the next. But most business people are unable to think more
than 3 months or 12 months in advance.


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