RE: [WEB400] Beyond RPG CGI

["Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Amen....  I know I have been trying to sell these capabilities to our
managers, and they finally gave me the freedom to write a large intranet
web application... And they loved it...  It's fast, and it handles indexing
through several million records in sub second response times... And not only
that, I have been given more web projects...  They actually prefer it on the
as/400, because they know the as/400 has such a nice database, plus it's
reliable.....  I just had to show them what it could do..

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@celsinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:53 PM
> To:   'web400@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: [WEB400] Beyond RPG CGI
>
> Part of the problem, I think, is that CIOs and Managers don't understand
> the
> AS/400 and what it's capable of.  They think of it as a mainframe that's
> okay for business data and is programmed in some obscure language called
> RPG, what, they playing Role Playing Games on these things?
>
> Start letting CIOs and Managers know that, hey, the AS/400 can also do C,
> C++, and now can do Linux, PERL, Java, etc... some of the things they've
> heard about.  So they get a warm glowing feeling, if all the RPG
> programmers
> drop off the face of the earth, they can get someone out there to program
> in
> C, or Java, or PERL...
>
> I definitely agree, it is a problem of perception, not reality.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Paris [mailto:Jon.Paris@Partner400.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: [WEB400] Beyond RPG CGI
>
>
>  >> CIOs (and managers) who fail to understand that will fail. period.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> The problem is one of perception - not reality.
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
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