Ah heck Joe. I'm practicing to be a director. Obfuscate, bottleneck,
avoidance are the key words.
FYI - It was not hypothetical. Sad but true story.
To answer your question it probably would not have helped in this
specific situation. In this case the company was looking for packages
and to not modify them.
However, your points on EGL are very valid and they do present some very
interesting options for the customer base.
The question back is EGL a valid tool for existing System i software
vendors and for new software vendors?
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From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:09 PM
To: 'Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: iSeries revenue plummets
From: Crump, Mike
No argument here. About your idea or the beating of a dead horse.
Yeah, but you didn't answer the question. Would an integrated language
that
builds browser pages fit the bill for your hypothetical engineer? You
could
buy the integrated system and then provide whatever GUI interface they
needed.
I'm really asking - would that fit the need?
Joe
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