RE: AS/400 & Native Zip Eng

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim wrote (in part)

>I hear people bitch about the cost of AS/400 utilities and then spend a
>week or more hacking together something rather than buying a packaged
>solution that would ultimately work out cheaper. (I think Simon Coulter
>made a similar point earlier).

Of course, you can always have the programmer do it in house, then complain
that the schedules are not being met and insist everyone work weekends
until they're back on schedule.   (:


>Furthermore, AS/400 users expect higher
>levels of support even if they only paid $100 for the product.

If I buy a utility for $100 it had better work as advertised or back it
goes.  A utility program is something that either works (like WINZIP) or it
doesn't.   (:

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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