Re: "Webulating" RPG

[Booth Martin <boothm@xxxxxxx>]

Jon, IBM's marketing and advertising shouldn't take the hit for the AD tools not
being more accepted.  Until there is a sea change in the typical AS/400 shop's
management mind about upgrading skills I can not believe the scene will change.
Training is difficult and very expensive.  Learning to use Code/400 effectively 
is
not a three-day seminar, and the same is true for VARPG.   Added in to that,
there's no visible payback in improved applications, nor more of them.

Show  a real, working, and complete WRKSPLF application in VARPG and perhaps 
one or
two other real applications that I can install on client sites so they can see
VARPG actually work, and see the actual RPG code under the covers.  I've talked
with a couple of RPG programmers about VARPG  and I know they do not believe 
they
can write a windows program in RPG.
 I show them the dinky little program I wrote and  put on my site and they read 
it
easily and feel better.


Jon Paris wrote:

> Our marketing is obviously not as good as it should be, but discussions with
> others such as Aldon (who market Flex/Edit) lead me to believe that the AS/400
> crowd as a whole are difficult to reach, and even harder to sell to.  It would
> be interesting to survey those on this list (obviously among the leaders in
> AS/400 technology!) to see just how many are still using SEU as their primary
> editor (which as I've said in the past I regard as being the equivalent of
> using a sharpened screwdriver to do fine woodcarving!!)



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