RE: 'green screen' not sellable

Why not repurpose their RPG business logic to be used in C# or any remote language by adding services around the existing code ?

If the data is going to be on i anyway, leverage as much of the existing back end as possible would be my thoughts.

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date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:36:06 -0700
from: Hoteltravelfundotcom <hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: 'green screen' not sellable

I was talking Friday with an owner of a company that has billing software for a particular industry.
Where there are frequent, government and insurance changes they have to apply.

Their software is based on RPG. He said they want to rewrite in C# because they cannot sell to new customers.
OK fair enough but do you think C# based is the way to go? Secondly he said that they will keep the data on the IBM I.

Actually I have been working with mobile apps lately connecting a desktop system using Delphi and I was thinking this might be a better way for them to get their product to the public relatively sooner. Taking a complicated old database from ibm I and trying to fit in C# I think it hard but what are their choices?