Re: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

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?

I don't understand? Why would a cheaper manufacturing cost of transistors
slow iSeries sales? If anything, if it was cheaper to manufacture IBM
should be able to sell more units at a reduced cost by passing the savings
on to the customer. Personally, I think what has killed sales is the
perception of the platform being a dinosaur, and IBM's constant rebranding
of things to the point that even if the customer wanted to jump onboard he
doesn't even know where to start.

I love the 400, it's a good, solid, dependable platform and writing RPG is
a breeze. Interfacing to the non-IBM world is a little tricky, but
doable. I do my part, I tell anyone who asks what I do that I work on the
best platform in the world - unfortunately, 90% of them have no idea what
the AS/400/iSeries/System i is. I think it's about time for IBM to do
their part and sell, sell, sell the damn platform until the next time
someone asks me what I do, and I say I program on the iSeries, that person
tells me how he's heard so much good buzz about it that I must be a lucky
man indeed! =)