Re: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You say something that is unclear to me.  

Lets say Moore's Law is still in effect, which seems to still be the case.

What is the effect of a 50% drop in revenue per transistor, every 18 
months, over a couple of decades?  Doesn't there have to be a point 
where increasing sales can no longer be sustained?

DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Well, not to sound like Chicken Little, but with System i sales down, (or 
> whatever IBM calls it today), seemingly every quarter, I don't see what 
> all these wonderful enhancements are going to do for us.  A few more years 
> of IBM's sales strategy and there won't be anymore iSeries platforms for 
> us to program anything on.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to see IBM focus on SELLING the platform 
> even if it takes a backseat to new development.  I have complete faith in 
> our community's ability to keep the ball rolling when it comes to coding. 
> Vendors will make packages and people will collaborate to get things done 
> with the tools they have available now, but that's all moot if there's no 
> platform to do it on.
>
> Just my $.02
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