Re: IBM i GUI Frameworks

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/16/2010 9:49 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> This platform has been
> milked by a number of entities for too many years without enough progress in
> other areas (i.e. easy access to a machine) and that is now apparent.

How true this is and that is why some move off the platform.  I recently 
(VERY recently) had a job interview with a company that is using BPICS 
and dropped their support in 1998 because they were paying so much in 
relation to what they got.  Now they are at a point where they have to 
modernize and that means an investment in more RPG development vs 
leaving the platform.  With all the FUD about the demise of i and RPG 
and their past experience, which way do you think they are leaning? 
Likewise with the CIMS product from a company I worked for (long past).  
My New Jersey customer left support in 1998 for the same reason: 
Expensive support contracts, little return.  Now they are looking to 
modernize and which way do you think *they* are leaning?

BRAVO!! I say for those of us that are willing to sacrifice a few hours 
of work to promote the best platform on the planet.  It is a small 
counter-current to the "milk the platform until it dies" approach of 
some companies but worth the risk, I think.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com
www.opensource4i.com