Re: Time to get serious

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:

"There are ways to desensitize the current name: come up with "cute" acronyms or use the 
"this is NOT your father's RPG" technique, which actually worked pretty well for Oldsmobile."

Oldsmobile is belly up, gone, kaput so I am not sure how effective the 
marketing actually was, or perhaps you were just being ironic....

Personally, I think the "Only on the iSeries" is the wrong approach.  
"EVEN on the iSeries" is more like it for me. Want Apache? iSeries has 
it.  Want PHP? iSeries has it. Want CGI? iSeries has it. 64bit ? iSeries 
has it (for a decade!) . And on and on.  Awesome platform.  Nobody 
matches it.

Seems to me if you have an existing shop that develops web apps, telling 
them that they have to move to RPG to get rippin' fast native processing 
is the wrong direction. Telling them that they can have their cake and 
eat it too (any flavor) is just the ticket. 

My love for the iSeries goes FAR beyond RPG.....

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc