Re: ADTS V6R1 - No SEU updates?

Mark,

Few years ago, I worked on a project to phase out the AS400 and move to Powerbuilder by a software house. The result is that we had 3 losers: Users, IBM and developers. Spending a lot of money but the result was very very very bad. I'm not saying Powerbuilder is shit. I was certified Powerbuilder developer. I like it. The problem was those sales people always show you a sexy screen click click click ... simple to create a screen. Piece of cake!!! Two years, you would have an art of state technology system. The users and top managements were just crazy for the "Sexy screen". However, you are talking about to convert a system built for more that 10 years. How complicated were those business logics? Of course, the project was implemented because we couldn't let this issue to board of directors. Everybody got award. No matter what was the bad result. IBM lost one customer. Users had to do a lot of manual works. Developers had to learn a so
call new technology and gave up the solid and worked skill set.

Visual Studio is just another tools. It cannot help you to convent the existing business logic. I suggested you really think about it before you reach the point of no return. Just my suggestion.....

Kevin


----- Original Message ----
From: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:56:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] ADTS V6R1 - No SEU updates?

Mark Allen skrev den 15-02-2008 18:34:

Just glad I don;t have to decide (SEU WDSC RDi) It's gonna be Visual Studio
here soon.....................

Just out of curiosity. Since you cannot deploy .NET stuff to the
AS/400, what is the benefits you are intending to get by using Visual
Studio? Writing thick clients running on the users PC's?

This is not flamebait - I would genuinely like to know.