Re: Motivating BPs (was RPGIII to get a facelift?)

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One thing that I do believe IBM needs to do is to challenge the ISVs to
move
> to RPG IV.
make it a requirement of their BP status... just like having Certified
staff.
(and if they don't have the dev people to do this, other BP's (like me)
can do it).
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <farr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Motivating BPs (was RPGIII to get a facelift?)


> One thing that I do believe IBM needs to do is to challenge the ISVs to
move
> to RPG IV.  _Especially_ JDE.  They move their code to RPG IV whenever the
> darn stuff gets too big to compile in RPG III, but it's long past time
they
> moved the rest of it.  If two man shops can convert JDE to RPG IV with no
> problem then it seems to me that JDE shouldn't find it beyond their
ability!
>
> If IBM are _really_ serious about moving customers forward, they need to
get
> the ISVs off their backsides first.
>
> Jon Paris
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