Re: Death of the RPG Programmer

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

> But that is a batch vs. interactive governor.  That has nothing to do with
> RPG.

I know, but it illustrates the use of governors to motivate the customer.
If you think about it, it is not that IBM wants you write batch programs
and therefore give you a good deal on them. It is that IBM wants you
to use an AS/400 as a back-end server for Web/Client-server
applications. You could find an inexpensive NT or Unix solution,
so to compete, the AS/400 used as a server has to be cheap, but
that will cut into revenues from all the loyal customers that use the
AS/400 for interactive work. Remember how we have been told
that because of the tasking structure and single-level store, the
AS/400 was traditionally optimized for multi-user (read: interactive)
work. To make sure that money flows in from these customers
they are forced to buy big expensive models.



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