Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s.

On 18-Feb-09, at 6:58 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Say it ain't so! Just because there are shops in the dark ages
means that none of us should move forward?

OK - one last try.

I didn't intend to say, infer, imply, suggest or in in other way mean that.

I _do_ believe that the vast majority of shops who are likely to "move forward" have already done so - or certainly will have done so in the three years that realistically it would take before any significant %age of the community has such an ability available to them.

I repeat what I said before, since CGI is stateless and 5250 isn't, I'm far from convinced that those RPGers who haven't already embraced the web would like/use what they were given even if IBM miraculously produced a native GUI overnight.

I would be thrilled to be proved wrong - but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for IBM. I'm going to continue to exploit technologies like CGIDEV2, PHP, tools like Look, and anything new that comes out the Danish project among others.


Jon Paris

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