Re: Helas another nail in the RPG coffin

On 2011-06-24 09:23, Jack Kingsley wrote:

For those dropping the platform, what is the main business decision to do
such a thing. How long have you been on the platform. Is the person in
charge aware of the I or unaware of the I. Has anyone seen a cost analysis
depicting moving from applications and platform A to applications on
platform B. I wish we had a quick boot of I5/OS that was nothing but GUI
based, you could do it but as usual price might be a stopping proponent.

In our case, we are a sort of glorified ASP in an industry vertical (more to it than that, but not important.) The person in the driver's seat is certainly not uninformed. He has made the decision that it doesn't look good on the corporate resume to be running the business on an AS400 (he insists on calling it that) which is 20 year old technology, and therefore not cool. Consequently, we dump it, and move everything possible to Windows. What's not possible, we move to Oracle, and we do everything with packages, thereby throwing out 20 years of development effort, and do integration, not programming. It makes some sense from a marketing perspective, and that's what he gets paid for. He really doesn't care much about anything else.