Re: RDi way ahead

----- Message from John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 6
Mar 2017 20:58:11 -0500 -----

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"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi way ahead

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is it possible that all those people who got all those CDs in those

big

boxes of software just stuffed them in the Circular File? It sure is,
but I don't see how this is IBM's fault (as cost would be).

I'm sure no one is saying that part is IBM's fault. But somewhere or
another there was insufficient penetration of information. Many years
ago, our sysadmin did mention that we had something called Websphere.
But I don't think he nor our manager really understood everything that
entailed, and I sure as hell had no idea. I was still pretty new to
the AS/400. It never occurred to any of us that there could be an IDE
for RPG in there. (At the time, I was still adjusting to using Client
Access instead of the dumb terminal I was used to at my previous job.)

John Y.

I would probably chalk that up to a confusing name using "WebSphere".
People around here didn't want to get involved with everything a WebSphere
Server would have required. When the product was renamed (oh my, am I
really saying IBM did the right thing renaming something related to our
system?) to Rational Developer, that objection was put to rest.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org