RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV -- RPG400-L

Title: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

Sorry about my post - I didnt mean to offend anyone. But it appears that the major apps vendors have moved beyond the RPG only products of the 80's and 90's to GUI plaforms with an AS/400 being optional.

Most companies won't buy an AS/400-only app today if there is a competitive product that runs on a multitude of platforms, wouldn't you agree?

Vendors like JDE, Lawson, Intentia, and most of the other AS/400 ERP players no longer require AS/400 centric H/W to run their S/W.

Banking and other niche markets may be different, I don't know. Aren't your customers pushing for platform independence? The ERP customers did 5 to 10 years ago, and the ERP vendors who didn't make the transition are pretty much gone, don't you think?

-----Original Message-----
From: McCallion, Martin [mailto:MccalliM@Midas-Kapiti.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 10:45 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

Joel Stone said:

> Are you serious?
> If you haven't noticed, all of the hand-coded RPG 2/3/4 "million
dollar" package vendors are gone!!
> They have gone out of business, sold out, or whatever, but are no
longer tied to the AS/400 RPG design paradigm, as you > call it.
> The remaining players are all marketing within AND outside the AS/400
World, so they have moved beyond the RPG
> game. They all develop in C or VB or a CASE tool that they invented
or whatever.
> I dont think any serious players are still coding in RPG of any
flavor. I'm pretty sure that none of them even generate RPG > anymore
from their tools!
> For example JDE, Lawson, Intentia, etc, etc.
> The RPG-developed apps vendors lost market share and are gone!

I must say I'm surprised to hear that. I wonder why we at Midas-Kapiti
International haven't been told? Midas and Equation must have been
rewritten over the weekend. Certainly they were 99% RPG (with all new
development in ILE/RPG IV) and CL last week.

I wonder if our customers have been told?

Or don't major banking packages count? :)

Cheers,

Martin.

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