RE: Is RPG available on any other platform ?

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MJH@xxxxxxx>]

Side note, but you think that is scary?  At a recent departmental meeting it 
was stated by a CTO that "as crazy as it sounds, the reputation of MIS lies on 
whether our email is up or not".  So instead of dispelling silly notions that 
MIS main responsibility is the email, we are going to make that our top 
priority!

Goes along with the "wow that looks cool lets dump money into it" thinking!


-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Gillespie [mailto:lgillespie@cvwd.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:37 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Is RPG available on any other platform ?


> One thing that I have found to be interesting is that some people's
reason
> for going GUI isn't for additional functionality but instead for
looks.
> YIKES!!

Yikes indeed, but that is exactly the reason.  There is enormous,
unreasoning, overwhelming pressure on the part of users to not
have green screens.  I have seen with my own eyes users
fall all over themselves praising a 'new' app that was just the
old app with the NewLook terminal emulation so it looked like
Windows. You know what they liked best?  It wasn't that
nasty, hideous, backwards, awful green screen - it was
soothing, modern, cool Windows - BUT THE SCREENS
WORKED THE SAME WAY SO THEY DID NOT HAVE
TO RELEARN THE APP!!!!

Unbefreakinglievable.


Lance Gillespie
Coachella Valley Water District
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