On Thursday, 07/27/2006 at 02:47 EST, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, but Sir Alan, you miss the point. I enjoy and support new technology which > improves our lives and makes us more productive (so we can waste more personal > time watching movies and otherwise killing our brain cells). > > The IBMLink 2000 implementation was not new technology that improved our lives > or made us more productive -- it appears to be new technology implemented for > the sake of using new technology.
Ah, but Sir Mike, "cold, dead fingers" were mentioned. As long as you're still looking for a Better Way, then I'm content. And, yes, applications get redesigned Just Because. If you're writing 3270 apps, you're, like, in Nowhereville, man. OTOH, if you've got mousable OK and CANCEL, with a pulldown and a radio button, you're totally rad. Did you really expect the IBMLink developers to not follow the bouncing ball? Why should the other B2B apps have all the fun? :-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
