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From: Joe Pluta
To that end, anything that extends the 5250 interface is purely tactical, not
strategic.
Is this purely coincidental, or are you following the discussion on the AS/400
Professionals Group on LinkedIn? In that discussion, Stuart Milligan asserts
the following:
"All the emulation solutions in the world and ROA do nothing to redress this
real problem. I also hear and see so called industry leaders/pundits talk about
emulation/refacing as the first step in modernization. What a lot of nonsense,
its a blind alley that produces nothing beyond tactical user pacification.
Adding technology and complexity layers to these already messy and brittle
legacy applications may have tactical benefit in some instances, but
strategically its irresponsible. I think there is a lot of misleading so called
thought leadership around on IBM i that is almost certainly contributing to the
demise of the platform."
I personally think that ROA has a lot of potential, but at this point I'm not
sure how to respond. His other assertions are strong, clearly stated, logical,
and directed at the vendors and proponents of ROA.
-Nathan.
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