Re: Costco still on IBM i?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So Alan, you +1 Marco's hope that we drop this, then add to the thread 
Hey, I know, I can't resist either, as the years have shown. Just 
enjoying the list and the day, y'all!

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.0JNEHP3N.8j32bzLH@centurylink.net> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 5/23/2025 4:51 PM, Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> +1!  --I wish.. Some companies (like mine) have too much "legacy code" and think having budgets means you can't do such an immense overhaul of all that old code. The company I work did a couple of years of having people modernize old code, but only when an assignment brought a program across your screen.
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> Another programmer said he thought they should just assign a few to modernize the code. I agree with that. Sure it's lots of code but they went with a third party implementation. It didn't cover everything so they got a discount to help the vendor add the missing funcionality. Projected time to finish was 10 years. (They started out saying 2 years hahahaha--been there done that)..
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> Sometimes I wonder how many machines are still on "i". This company's new software is not on the "i".
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> It's a big company, but they're not going to renew the RDi license. IBM is pricing itself out. Best thing they did was adapting open source.
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> I will be glad when patents and copyright gets put to death.
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> --Alan
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> > On 05/23/2025 12:20 PM EDT Marco Facchinetti<marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I can't believe you people are still talking about 5250.
> >
> > Please, let it fade away.
> >
> > Best regards
> > --
> > Marco Facchinetti
> >
> > Mr S.r.l.
> >
> > Tel. 035 962885
> > Cel. 393 9620498
> >
> > Skype: facchinettimarco
> >
> >
> > Il giorno ven 23 mag 2025 alle ore 17:17 Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <
> > midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
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