RE: Helas another nail in the RPG coffin

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You've hit the nail on the head!  The T and O are often overlooked, since it seems that only the initial C is important!
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"Paul Nicolay" <Paul.Nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do they understand the "T" in TCO ?
>
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> We are one of this countries larger AS400 installations. I heard
> yesterday that we are going to migrate to Intel technology. Why ? RPG ?
> This is a problem for some of our prospects who would prefer Java based
> solutions but the main reason is the AS400 which is too expensive thus
> rendering us less competitive. The migration will take some time , but
> all new stuff on theAS400 is now developed in Java so as to ease the
> migration burden later on.
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