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On 9/16/2010 9:49 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
This platform has been
milked by a number of entities for too many years without enough progress in
other areas (i.e. easy access to a machine) and that is now apparent.
How true this is and that is why some move off the platform. I recently
(VERY recently) had a job interview with a company that is using BPICS
and dropped their support in 1998 because they were paying so much in
relation to what they got. Now they are at a point where they have to
modernize and that means an investment in more RPG development vs
leaving the platform. With all the FUD about the demise of i and RPG
and their past experience, which way do you think they are leaning?
Likewise with the CIMS product from a company I worked for (long past).
My New Jersey customer left support in 1998 for the same reason:
Expensive support contracts, little return. Now they are looking to
modernize and which way do you think *they* are leaning?
BRAVO!! I say for those of us that are willing to sacrifice a few hours
of work to promote the best platform on the planet. It is a small
counter-current to the "milk the platform until it dies" approach of
some companies but worth the risk, I think.
Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com
www.opensource4i.com
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