IMHO: What Will It Take to Turn the System i Around?
I really tried to get management to consider ASNA. I like ASNA's RPG.NET and other .NET resources. And you are right; ASNA gives you a seamless set of GUI and Windows features. Management has responded by asking if there is a product that will make an iSeries computer look like just another SQL-server to the VB.NET programmers in Visual Studio. And as for Java, this is a non-Java shop. The ASNA systems would allow us to more gracefully utilize legacy systems and "ease" into .NET. One group is trying to go straight from RPG-IV (sub files) and DDS to .NET. The system they are working on is very complicated with a lot of rewarmed RPG-II code! ASNA is dead on arrival because of our procurement process excludes a firm like ASNA. One of our programmers worked for years for a firm in Maryland with a positive experience with ASNA. There are many good testimonials as to ASNA's performance. --John
I really tried to get management to consider ASNA. I like ASNA's RPG.NET and other .NET resources. And you are right; ASNA gives you a seamless set of GUI and Windows features. Management has responded by asking if there is a product that will make an iSeries computer look like just another SQL-server to the VB.NET programmers in Visual Studio. And as for Java, this is a non-Java shop. The ASNA systems would allow us to more gracefully utilize legacy systems and "ease" into .NET. One group is trying to go straight from RPG-IV (sub files) and DDS to .NET. The system they are working on is very complicated with a lot of rewarmed RPG-II code! ASNA is dead on arrival because of our procurement process excludes a firm like ASNA. One of our programmers worked for years for a firm in Maryland with a positive experience with ASNA. There are many good testimonials as to ASNA's performance. --John
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