RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Jim Damato" <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Tom:
>...if you re-engineer the application 
>to use modern UI principles, you will get 
>a dramatic productivity improvement.  

>...but the GUI has 
>(in my view) more room for improvements.

I agree, however:

If you're not going to re-engineer the application to use modern UI
principles and you're not going to exploit the rich opportunities for
application improvements, you're just wasting time and effort.  You're
then binding your applications and businesses to complicated technology
and introducing considerable back-end costs and drag without good
reason.

I personally don't believe that there is a majority of folks out there
developing to good, modern UI principles.  For every decent,
productivity-improving GUI app (in my opinion) there has got to be a
dozen or so mediocre collections of forms and programs developed by
"programmers" without much true application design education or
experience, and developed without the benefit of business analysis.

It can be like buying a temperamental, unreliable expensive sports car
for someone who can barely drive and doesn't like to drive, so he can
commute to the train station.