President of Timeshare website comments on Technology

John Ross, president of JMR Consulting, which runs the NetShare400 time sharing site, points to a few Web sites and tools that are still alive, including some projects on SourceForge, one called Uzaemon, as well as the apparently now defunct project that many thought would be big, WyattERP. (This was an open source ERP project written in RPG, and it has the best name of any project, ever.)

Ross is pessimistic about the future of open source RPG applications. "Since most people do not have an iSeries of their own, the company they work for has to allow them to work on the projects on the company's computer, and most companies I have worked for have rules about this and who owns the code. This makes it hard to do open source projects. I also don't find many RPG programmers wanting to spend their free time on open source projects. I'm not sure if it's our age (I figure most are older)."

...Technologys goal is to save time...

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