RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"

Flipping burgers is a growth industry, yes.

But it is not that those IT managers know that the CF-specs are coming at
some point in the future. It is that today, they are struggling to get there
apps to work, updated, or moved to RPG IV or another platform. To add
another variable to the mix at this critical stage in the life of the AS/400
is disappointing to me.

IBM apparently doesn't care if you buy As/400 or an NEt Finity server. They
want to sell software. Well they never wrote an AS/400 piece of software
that took over the world, so to me, that means we may have a problem with
the future of the AS/400.

Bob Cozzi

http://www.RPGIV.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Dave Shaw
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 6:17 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
>
> >Buck,
> >
> >If tech savvy managers are not moving to RPG IV because they don't have
> >programmers who will be able to maintain it (as suggested in
> several other
> >posts) how will adding yet another flavor (the CF-spec) enhance the
> >manager's willingness to use RPG IV? I believe it will not. It will have
> the
> >opposite effect, hence my dislike of introducing the CF-spec
> today. Perhaps
> >after a few years of RPG IV code, if people want to go the 'RPG V' route,
> >then sure, go ahead, but in today's world, CF-spec will kill RPG IV.
> >
> >But, hey I only speak from talking to thousands and thousands of RPG
> >programmers, not a few dozen respondents from this mailing list (as IBM
> >apparently does).
>
> Please define "today", Bob.  My own personal definition of "today" doesn't
> include "the release after next", "late 2000 or early 2001", or any of the
> other availability dates that have been suggested as being reasonable
> forecasts for this thing actually hitting the streets.  If there's really
> that many pointy-haired bosses who are concerned about an optional feature
> that they probably won't even be able to use for more than two
> years, then I
> think I better look into the burger-flipping opportunities that
> are supposed
> to be so plentiful these days.
>
> ---
> Dave Shaw, Spartan Mills, Spartanburg, SC
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