RE: DFTACTGRP(*NO) ACTGRP(*NEW)

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> This is a little short sighted, isn't it? Do you really think that we'd
> be able to talk management into switching from, say JD Edwards, to
> someone else just because they don't use RPG IV? I think this suggestion
> would be good for a laugh and that's about it.
>

Short sighted?   If anything, it's the opposite.   Any good business plan
takes into account the future.  The software needs to have the ability to
grow and evolve when people's businesses grow and evolve.    Just as you
don't want to be running software for CP/M today, you won't want to be
running RPG III in 5 years.

I think I'm conservative about things like this.  I don't want to hire a
vendor that jumps on the bandwagon of every new technology.  But, RPG IV?
I mean, come on, it's been 7 or 8 years since it came out!

If anyone is short-sighted here, it's the vendor who's unwilling to grow
into the future, because it saves him some small amount of labor today!
You could hire a part time college student to work on it for 1 hour a day,
and they'd be done by now!

When someone the size of JD Edwards does something like this, not only are
they holding back their own software, but they're holding back a
significant portion of the RPG community, and consequently the iSeries
community!