×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
James,
At 5/8/09 01:06 PM, you wrote:
I personally don't think that RPG needs a nice GUI like others do.
Why do you say this? Have you gone on a sales call where your
competition has the GUI and you don't? I have and it's not
pretty. The non-GUI software barely has a chance. That's just the
reality for most decision makers. They want brand new software that
looks and feels brand new.
In the past IBM has tried to give us this and very few people did
anything with it, so they gave up and how can blame them.
Did anyone find out WHY it failed? Was it too expensive? Too
difficult to implement? To resource hungry? Too limited in functionality?
I'm betting that it was one or more of the above reasons. That
does NOT mean that we don't want / need a native GUI to make us
competitive. The same way that IBM woke up and included TCP/IP as an
integral part of i5/OS or risk losing the entire midrange business,
they need to recognize that an integrated, native GUI is crucial to
remaining viable.
-mark
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
