> On Oct 15, 2017, at 9:22 AM, scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed, > > I agree with you. Machines are faster and faster. But customers are demanding > changes to code and fixes faster. This to me is a problem, especially if > 'caution is thrown to the wind'. Dealing with the security subsystem, I.e.; > RACF, ACF2 and TOP-SECRET , many customers are ignorant of these products , > especially in how and why they work. > > I write in COBOL and my first love Assembler, so we have exits that support > our product. > I have seen like everyone else a lot of craziness. The approach of using the > PC and Java for everything to me is a cop out . This is the apparent trend I > have been seeing. To this t-Rex this is not the only path to product > development. > > > Scott
Scott, I do not know what part you play in your products life cycle. Let us say you want to have your program do something unusual like say make a call to vendor B to get results. Now all of a sudden you have to ship Vendor B’s product with yours. I will guarantee they will not give it to you for free. Now your product ships with Vendor’s B product. Your cost *HAVE* to go up, so how do you handle it, add 2.00 to the monthly fee? I don’t think so, there are things like contract and that means getting lawyers involved etc etc.. Now not only do you have two worry about fixes to your product you have to figure out how to include fixes from Vendor B as well. It gets a lot more complicated as you add on other vendors and pretty soon you will be twisted up in release issues and it will drive your company to bankruptsy. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
