Re: Adoption of RPG OA (Summary)

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam

That's about what it looked like, too. The 3 major vendors that are 
writing apps with it have customers that might not show up here much - 
we've never heard anyone talk here much about Profound Logic's RPG Smart 
Pages, e.g., or ASNA's or lookSoftware's modernization stuff. I think 
that's because this is a DIY list in the majority - at least, that's my 
impression.

It is still somewhat difficult for the list's habitues to get into using 
OA for their own development. If your company hasn't bought into it, you 
have to become a partner with IBM and use a virtual loaner box or get a 
box through the lease/discount program (North America only?), or you 
have to sign up at idevcloud.com.

It'd be cool if IBM were to open the virtual loaner program to 
non-partners - it's a great program and really amounts to a 
system-as-a-service kind of cloud offering.

Anyhow, that's what I see from my IBM partner chair. Standard customers 
will still have the hardest time with adopting this on their own.

Profound Logic is giving a session at COMMON this year - might be worth 
a listen as to their experience, and one could ask how many customers 
they have.

Vern

On 3/17/2011 7:05 PM, Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm replying to myself to summarize the response as I see it.
>
> It looks like only a couple of folk on the list are actively using RPG
> OA, one doing an evaluation and one actively using it in a project with
> a 3rd party handler.
>
> I thought more people might be using it by now.
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On 3/10/2011 9:49 PM, Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > RPG OA came out with a bang a year ago, and several vendors announced
> > tools, some of which looked very good. But it seems to have been
> > relatively quiet since. (Not to disparage articles by several people on
> > the list and discussions here...)
> >
> > But has there been any adoption of RPG OA and the 3rd party vendor
> > handlers and tools? Is there a market developing that will sustain the
> > vendors? Anyone actually using a 3rd party handler, or even installed
> > one for evaluation?
> >
> > Sam