Re: Re: cost estimate for a GUI pilot

I have appreciated the discussion so far. My company has been deploying
browser user interfaces exclusively since the year 2000, interfacing with
RPG back-end servers. We have deployed hundreds of new applications and GUI
/ PDF reports since then. Virtually none of our software uses display files.

It is hard to make suggestions about GUI tools without knowing what you
want to do with them, and what you might want the tools to do for you.

Suggesting Profound UI and ASNA Wings implies that you may want to reuse
your existing 5250 logic and workflow, and follow the traditional display
file paradigm. Is that a high priority?

Or, are you more interested in providing the most compelling and productive
user experience possible, taking full advantage of browser capabilities?

Is it more important to cater to your existing RPG skill sets? Or, would
you be more interested in extending your skill sets to include HTML, CSS,
JavaScript - again with the primary goal of providing the most productive
and compelling end-user experience possible?

Are you more interested in facilitating your current skill sets and current
RPG team members? Or would you be interested in bringing in new people who
have GUI design experience primarily with browser technologies, and
teaching them RPG?

Are you more interested in doing a make-over of existing screens? Or, would
you be more interested in restructuring your application architecture to
become more agile and better able to accommodate change?

Are you interested in broadly-scoped application development? Or do you
just have a small project in mind?

Nathan.