Aaron,
The answer is "ignorance" - leading to much less than optimal TCO!!
Don
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On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:22 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Is this really new ?
Hi Aaron
In my experience, people don't consider it bad - they consider it "not
mainstream" and therefore it's a risk from a professional point of view.
Not being mainstream means it's hard/expensive to find staff,
consultants turn their nose up at their non-preferred technology and
staff have to be trained from the ground up to use it.
Since no mainstream consultant - including IBM - is ever going to
recommend the IBM i (it simply doesn't generate enough consulting
income) as part of any new solution, managers that have never worked
with the technology won't recommend or support it. If they are wrong
they are wrong all by themselves, and if they are right it doesn't pad
out their CV sufficiently.
I don't think a GUI or anything will help until IBM decide to get behind
the machine and push it as a viable mainstream solution rather than a
niche "if you already have one" solution.
I'm not holding my breath.
Regards
Evan Harris
The thought I have been pondering the past couple months is "what
really is the issue with IBM i and why do people consider it bad". The
obvious answer is the look and feel. Note that has NOTHING to do with
the language or DB or OS, yet shops are willing to throw all of that
combination away and go to .NET simply because the look and feel of the
UI is quite right (well, ok, it is way not right :-) Fix the UI and we
have an incredibly viable machine that is second to none (a second
time).
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