Re: Re: Accounting Vendors

["Hewitt, Rory" <rory.hewitt@xxxxxx>]

Trevor,

Apologies - the "as any fule know..." comment was meant in jest - it's a
quote from Molesworth. Maybe your bike is more robust than mine :-) But
regular service on a server can't necessarily catch all the problems
with WAS/Apache/Tomcat (at least not in my experience). The web versions
of our apps have more problems with communications than do our
green-screen apps.

Modular architecture can be good from the point of view of maintenance,
but it adds more complexity in terms of the number of 'moving parts'. At
least with a green-screen app, any of your RPG coders can have a crack
at it if it needs changing.

Many companies aren't as forward-thinking as yours - timesheets are
still handwritten in many (most?) places.

My "neither the time nor the resources" coment still stands. Some may
call it inertia. But I don't think my Jave vs. RPG comment was out of
place. There are many people who look at our RPG apps and say "But this
can be done better/faster/nicer using <insert other language/technology
here>". Even in the cases where this IS true, why would a company spend
time, money and resources fixing something that, as far as THEY are
concerned, ain't broke? If they;'re willing to provide jobs for
data-entry clerks and RPG programmers, I have no problem with it.

Rory