Re: Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees Their Own Cafe

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

BVS wrote

> > I've never used Word or Powerpoint for business apps.  Maybe for a seminar
> > or writing a family Christmas letter.

Not even for the odd book or two? Please add up the hours spent using which
piece of software ;-)

- Maurice

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bradley V. Stone
Sent: 19 December 2008 23:17
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees
Their Own Cafe

I've never used Word or Powerpoint for business apps.  Maybe for a seminar
or writing a family Christmas letter.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Dave Odom
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 4:52 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG
> Devotees Their Own Cafe
>
>
> Since most business development is done via MS apps (PowerPoint,
> Word, etc.) or other non-i platforms, the i community will
> continue to shrink vis-a-vis business development.   Now if you
> mean application development of automating business processes
> (instead of business development)... the same answer applies.
> If you mean business plans... the same answer applies.   As to
> the i playing a part in business... its a shrinking part, as
> things are currently going.
>
>
>
> > > > Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> 12/19/2008 15:31 >>>
> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > My question is this: When will we ever reach the point of
> > being business developers again vs. ... techgeek ...
>
>
> I've flip-flopped back and forth quite a bit during the past 8
> years.  Who knows when the dust will settle?  Right now I'm
> pleased to be doing more application development than "tool" or
> "interface" development.
>
> Meanwhile, the tug and pull between traditional desktop
> applications on one hand, green-screens on the other, and a whole
> lot of Web technologies in the middle, keeps the dust from settling.
>
> You mentioned Silverlight and Flex.  They may be advertised as
> Web technologies, but they look more like traditional desktop
> technologies to me.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
>
>
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