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Nathan,

I have dabbled in various technologies, such as Java, VARPG, screen scraper/markup tool, etc., but for the most part felt that the complexities and / or restrictions that each introduced was unacceptable.

The other side of the coin is that while customer would like a GUI, very few want to pay "extra" to have one. As a consultant, I'm bound by what the customer is willing to pay for, vs. a company with a finished product that they are mass marketing. I would love to be on a project that would allow me to solidify my GUI technical skills. (Any takers out there?)

So to some degree, I have not been waiting, but rather hoping that the good folks at IBM will come to their senses and "get with the program."

-mark


At 5/12/09 09:19 AM, you wrote:

> From: M. Lazarus
> Have you gone on a sales call where your competition has
> the GUI and you don't? I have and it's not pretty.

Your competition provides a GUI, and you don't? It was about 1993 when we began feeling pressure from prospects and competitors to provide a GUI - which begs the question, what have you been doing for the past 16 years, or so?

Waiting for IBM to fix the problem?

Nathan.


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