Re: New COMMON Conference

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

You're absolutely right.  The problem, in many cases, has nothing to do 
with how functional 5250 screens are.  It has to do entirely with how 
the users perceive them.

That's not true 100%, of course. There are places where pictures, 
graphs, etc, are useful in business, and having a GUI screen makes those 
work much better.

However, there are many circumstances ("key 150 time cards") where it 
doesn't matter whether it's green screen or GUI from a functional 
perspective.  But, to the user's perception, it makes all the difference 
in the world.  And I haven't found any way to combat that perception, 
aside from providing GUI, modern, display interfaces.


On 8/16/2012 4:49 PM, Don wrote:
> No Paul, you supposed to go GUI...it's politically correct, it looks nice
> for the simple minds in marketing, it's what everybody wants, it's what M$
> has overmarketed the world to believe is what's supposed to be the
> standard....oh and btw, you'll probably have to hire an additional person or
> two because it may be slower than your green screen if you're going to make
> that large payroll in time... :)