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Ah!! OK, then Your company has installed a new ERP. How smoothly did it go? Were they in and out in a few weeks or did it drag on for several months? Have the users liked the new system? Are the savings mounting up even as we speak? What was the new platform-independent system? Does it run on win-tel and Unix and apple at the workstations? Is it all browser interface? Are the reports useful and is there a full suite of reports that fill user and management needs? Is there an appropriate user query tool or does it require SQL training for the user base? How is performance? Security? Is there a wide pool of potential workers already versed in the package and the language for modifications? Have your help desk costs dropped appreciably? What does it use for networking terminals, PCs, Macs, and various printers? _______________________ Booth Martin boothm@earth.goddard.edu http://www.spy.net/~booth _______________________ "Stone, Joel" <StoneJ@GourmetAward.com> Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com 02/07/2000 03:40 PM Please respond to RPG400-L To: "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com> cc: Subject: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV Jon - Do you really think JDE is the "exception" who has switched to a "different paradigm"? In my opinion, the only vendors still strong and enhancing their products are the ones who switched away from RPG and moved (years ago) to a multi-platform computing environment. JDE switch to non-RPG development I think in the early 90's. Lawson did it before that. They both have case tools which output non-RPG code to run the same apps on the customer's choice of AS/400, NT, Unix, etc. I know that our company didn't even consider an AS/400-only solution when they chose an ERP last year, and I doubt that any prospect would buy into an RPG app in this millenium, whehter it is RPG2, 3, 4, or 10! It is just too limiting. Businesses want the flexibility to move to another platform if they need to in the future. Quote from Jon: "The exceptions are those like JDE who have switched to a different paradigm (sorry couldn't think of another word). Even these are reconsidering". Come one Jon - are you actually thinking the big AS/400 ERP vendors are considering going backwards from platform independence to RPG? Is that why JDE spent 5 years and hundreds of millions of $ moving from RPG to GUI C? Are you saying SAP is considering moving to RPG? Is BAAN switching to RPG development? Can you name one major player that is considering switching to RPG that spent millions moving away from RPG? The only vendors still coding in RPG appear to have either: no competition (a niche player) or are milking a maintenance revenue stream. But the latter group is not signing on any new customers! -----Original Message----- From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 1:43 PM To: RPG400-L@midrange.com Subject: RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV >> An exception to this would be MAPICS. Many of the big and medium size vendors are switching their new versions to RPG IV - although if they are all like the one that Susan saw last week at a client's site it may not be such a good idea! (Can you remember the early "Native" apps on AS/400 <g>) The exceptions are those like JDE who have switched to a different paradigm (sorry couldn't think of another word). Even these are reconsidering since many of their users have demonstrated that they have no intention of switching to the new versions. As has also been pointed out here it is perfectly possible to do a straight CVTRPGSRC on the vendor software and do your in-house mods on that. If fixes etc. come in, you convert them too before comparing and re-integrating. In some cases the vendor has announced that there will be no new releases of the existing product. When this happened I'd be headed for my RPG IV conversion tools faster than ........ +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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