RE: iSeries revenue plummets

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The purchasing guy doesn't care about
the appearance of a piece of information that tells him he needs to order
1,263 widgets right now or the Jones order will not get shipped this year.

Paul Nelson
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Office 512-392-2577
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From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:40 AM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: iSeries revenue plummets

And really, the web programmer *should* be making things look pretty,
and the business rules guy should be writing the code for the MRP
calcs. One of the things on the System i is that we (programmers) do
the business logic and the data access and the presentation. Which we
can do, primarily because the presentation isn't pretty. It's
functional, maybe more functional than a web page, but it's not
pretty.

On Nov 20, 2007 12:32 PM, Mark Allen <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Are the programmers really much more expensive than dba's or web
programmers??"

In a lot management/financial types they are, because the perception is a
System i programmer can ONLY do green screen and you are paying for OLD
skills.

"Show me a web programmer who can discuss the calculations necessary for

an

MRP run. I have yet to see one who could produce a balance sheet."

Agreed but again to "those in charge" it's more important to make the
results from that MRP run or balance sheet, look pretty.......

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