Re: More bitching about IBM (was More SQL precompiler)

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "John Taylor"
> What I hear from my colleagues, is not some exciting
> discussion of a new iSeries application they're bringing
> to market, but rather talk of how to milk the existing
> installed base long enough to carry them into retirement.

Those must be the same folks who wrote Y2K incompliant applications in the
80's and 90's.  Short sighted!  But admitedly, there were a goodly number of
them.

On the other hand, there are a few of us who are investing in the iSeries,
and believing that it's the best platform to host business applications.
Including new applications.  I write new RPG code, almost daily.  And have
been doing it for the past few years.  And expect to keep doing it for the
foreseeable future.

In my experience, IBM Business Partners and ISVs rarely milk anybody.  In my
prior employment, our company worked very hard to generate annual revenue of
approximately $75,000 per person.  At the same time IBM was generating
annual revenue of approximately $250,000 per employee.  And Microsoft was
generating $500,000 annual revenue per employee.  I haven't check the annual
reports recently, though.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com