Re: [WEB400] RE: Opinions Wanted

[Gilbert Noetzel <gilbertn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here..here Bob Cozzi , you should send as well as everyone should send a 
new "marketing" line to IBM Marketing department "IBM,  We're Thinking 
about it!"

LOL!


Gil

Bob Cozzi wrote:

> First, they have to fix the IDE or nobody is going to continue to build new
> apps for the 400.
> Second, they need to add in the capability to generate starter-code
> applications. I was working on this feature for CodeStudio but when I
> decided nobody in the 400 market spends money on 3rd-party IDE's I stopped
> that effort.
> Third, they have to realize that we just want it to work easily, quickly and
> without the typical 50 additional "you just need to do this" steps.
>
> Here it is 2005 and IBM's IDE for everything (i.e., WDSc) is no where near
> the capability of Microsoft's own Visual C++ editor from 10 years ago. 
> What's the problem?  Too many developers (at IBM) working on tools for
> platforms for which they have little to no experience writing code. Too many
> platforms to support therefore they support all of them badly.
> I am sooooo tired of that "In the next release we're doing this..." line. 
> IBM should change its traditional tag line from:
> "IBM, Think!" 
> to 
> "IBM, We're thinking about it!"
> -Bob Cozzi
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jon Paris
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WEB400] RE: Opinions Wanted
>
> >> What's your definition of "support" of CGIDEV2?
>
> Whatever you and the others on the list want it to be.  I was specifically
> asking what they do it terms of tools/compilers that would ease the
> development of CGIDEV2 type apps.
>
> >> What's your definition of "support" of WebSphere?
>
> What they are currently doing in WDSC.
>
> >> What's IBM doing on one that they aren't doing on the other?
>
> One (CGIDEV2) they constantly bad mouth and attempt to shut down the web
> site.  The other (WAS) is an alter at which all marketing and support
> dollars are deposited.
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
> www.Partner400.com
>
>
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