Re: VisualAge RPG for AS/400?

[fbocch2595@xxxxxxx]

So, only 4-5 orders an hour.  Management is ok w/that?  
 
Oh well, noone ever got fired for converting to windows or oracle.   
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:39:28 -0500
Subject: RE: VisualAge RPG for AS/400?


 >> Why does a data entry clerk need the internet or anything BUT a green
screen, dumb terminal to enter the data???

Let's assume for the moment that they _don't_ need anything else.  It is
still irrelevant.  It is what they _want_ that matters, not what they need.
And even if the users don't want it - their management still do.  And they
are the ones who make the decisions.

The replacement by cruddy Windows/Oracle/nameYourPoison "solutions" of large
numbers of iSeries around the world should be enough for all of us to take
that as a given.  I know of one case where a system that allowed a 5250
operator to process 10 - 15 orders an hour was replaced by an Oracle based
solution.  Even after tripling the hardware beyond the original spec for the
iSeries replacement, they could still only manage 4 - 5 orders an hour.  But
they are still using it - the 5250s are gone.  Does it make sense?  No.  But
nobody ever said it had to!

Jon Paris
Partner400

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