Re: IBM getting it right!

Larry,

I am pleased that you enjoyed my presentations last week at Interaction.
It is great to hear that they provided the basis for developing a roadmap
for your path forward. I will also pass your kind words along to Mike Cain
and Kyle Wurgler.

I hope to talk to you again soon. PS - I am happy to hear that I'm "one
of the guys"!

Alison Butterill
IBM i Application Development Offerings Manager
Certified IT Specialist - WebSphere, Application Development and IBM i
Power Systems, IBM Corporation
(905) 413-2039



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Hi Guys,

I went to the Interaction symposium at Surfers Paradise (QLD, Australia)
last week and wished I'd gone to one of those gigs sooner!

The presentations the IBMers put on were just great. I sat through every
Rational Development presentation they had and talked to the guys from IBM
and I think we now have a great roadmap for moving our whole shop (20+
developers) over to RDi (RPG developers) and RDi-SOA for Java (RPG, java
and jsp developers). We will start training them on WDSCi 7.0 while still
at 5.4 to get everybody over the transition shock. :-)

I think the original launch of RDi got everybody confused (including many
IBMers) but I guess it is difficult to know what to keep and what to lose
when everything is bundled and shipped free. IBM were on a loser there
from the start. But credit to them, they reacted quickly and got it right.
It is also difficult to justify complaining about IBM's development
roadmap if you haven't talked to IBM. Now I have I'm very happy with it.

Joe, you was right about RDi moving to a newer version of eclipse too. It
was confirmed that the next release of RDi (out in October I believe) will
be based on eclipse 3.3. So that's all great!

Anyway, just wanted to post a 'I'm happy with IBM' message, and that's not
even going into the changes to RPG (possibly overloaded procedure names,
and maybe ability to write/read xml on EXFMT) on the way or the excellent
work they have done with the SQL SQE optimizer (that's for another list
I'm sure).

Cheers

Larry Ducie

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