RE: Shooting the Breeze re: Information Center -- RPG400-L

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Opinion noted.  Mine is that this is the source of the documentation for the
operation and programming of the iSeries.  Already own/lease the box, want
to get at the information.  Now.  Every layer of 'clutter' that slows down
the process costs time and money.  I agree there's a time and place for cute
maps, etc, just disagree that getting at the documentation  is it.  The
audience is professional programmers, administrators, operators, etc.  Save
the click on your continent stuff for vice presidents. :-)

Looks like in this instance IBM's provided for both approaches, the link I
had was to the stuff and the link Tom had was to the fluff.  Just need to
adjust the linkage and it's win/win. Good job IBM.

It's all about knowing the audience, as I said.  If I'm going to sell
puppies to the illiterati I'll use lil puppy cartoon animated gif's.  If I'm
going to sell pedigreed pooches I'll use a more suitable interface.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:56 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Shooting the Breeze re: Information Center


>I'm with you on the map deal, too damn cute.  They need to know their
intended audience a little better.

Not a personal attack, just an opinion on the comment you made, Tom.

If you think about it, who are they trying to get to use this and gain
interest with?  The next generation of programmers, right?

Does the page work, provide me with the information I need, and fairly easy
to navigate through?  Yes.

Does the page also have a lot of nifty gadgets, pics, links that may deter
or spark interest?  Yes.

I think they are just trying to get up to speed with the rest of the world
which is great.  There are so many things that are going to be coming down
the crapper in the future and we just can't blow them off as junk.  In case
you haven't noticed the AS/400 has been expanding its capabilities a ton in
the past few years (XML, JAVA, Apache, Tomcat, etc).  Do you want to be the
one standing there trying to land a project when the customer wants GUI and
all you know how to do is RPG green screens?  Sure green screens are fast,
but that's not what the customer wants.  If someone is going to pay you
$10,000 to develop an internet site that just shows pictures of cute little
puppies would you not take it just because you don't like pictures on
webpages?

We need to change our thinking guys. . .

Aaron Bartell

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