RDP: Are we our own worst enemy?

I changed the subject since I'm guessing that many people stopped
following this thread.

I think Booth's comments below are awesome and this needs to be heard,
which is why I changed the subject line. Please read and pay attention,
especially to the last paragraph.


Rob Berendt





From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 12/17/2012 03:34 PM
Subject: Re: something unrelated
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Buck is on to something here. Are we, as a group, using the product the
way we should or are we limiting ourselves with our own falsely imposed
constraints?

In reading Buck's comment, I'd concur that Rdp does in fact blow the
doors off SEU. It is a great product. I do love what it does; it
works, and it has so much more to offer than SEU. Mostly, that "more"
includes a future.

Where am I going with this? Well, it also occurs to me that Rdp no
doubt does way more than i know, including lots of features I don't yet
realize I need but we as an interest group are staying stuck in the 90s.

Where are the Youtube tutorials on how to get the most of Rdp? Where
are the web sites with examples, screen shots, and tips and solutions?
Where is a ibrary of snippets (whatever they are)? I just did a Google
search and what little there is is 2+ years old.



On 12/17/2012 2:00 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

RDP blows the doors off of SEU, and I say that as a 25+ year veteran of
SEU. And frankly, it isn't a GUI vs green screen thing for me, because
the green screen XEDIT blew the doors off of SEU in the 1990s and SEU
has not changed since then.

This isn't a theoretical 'throw out the old at your peril' sort of
thing, it's an actual end-user's experience report, and it's not a
decision made on an emotional need to squee over the latest and
greatest, but on decades of actual use. RDP is not merely newer than
SEU, it's better than SEU. Yes, this is my opinion, and I it's my hope
that it is read as another data point and not a divisive line between
'us' and 'them.'

--buck