Re: New RPG programmers

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:24:53 -0500, Rooney, Michael P
<michael.p.rooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> There's that price thing again...
> 
> Perhaps this is to myopic of a view (i.e. the cost thing).  One
> has to wonder the true cost or ROI when you consider that, in many
> cases, I can have a single version that can compile and execute
> on the iSeries and Windows.  

In my experience, most SMB's and individual programmers don't think
about ROI or TCO nearly as much as they think about the cost of entry.

I work for a company with revenues over $1 billion/year.  We can buy a
product that costs several thousand dollars if we know it's going to
save us several times that amount.  I came here from a company with
revenues of around $200K/year.  I had a hard time getting them to buy
me a copy of Delphi (not an iSeries shop) because we had MS Access
around and they were strapped for cash.

And if someone is going to decide to learn a language on their own,
with no support from any larger organization, how are they going to
learn RPG?  What are they going to work with?

And if a long-time green-screen RPG programmer can be writing usable
GUI applications in just a few days, that is fantastic ;-)

Mike E.