Migrating from PH to Java / RDBMS

[Kesterson, Roger]

Your companies must have very large IS budgets...lucky you!  If they can
afford to throw vast amounts of money at these projects, more power to them.
Most of us are not fortunate enough to work for companies like that.

One thing you seem to be forgetting, however, is the difference when hiring
a programmer who has never seem PowerHouse vs. hiring one who has never seen
Java.  If you can't find any PH programmers, you can train someone in a
matter of days and they will be productive.  Try that with Java!

I speak from experience.  I had never heard of PowerHouse before I started
my current employment.  Don't get me wrong, I would love to be programming
in Java.  But on the other hand, there would be much more pressure in that
environment.  Face it, there is no way the average Java programmer can be as
productive as the average PH programmer.

>From a practical standpoint, is the pretty face (user interface) really
worth it?  You spend incredible amounts of time tweaking it to satisfy a
bunch of spoiled users.  Again, I speak from experience (VB and Delphi).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael A Olesen [mailto:mao@krifapost.dk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:39 PM
> To: powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
> Subject: Re: Migrating from PH to Java / RDBMS
> 
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> 
> Keep going Jon!
> 
> We are doing a similar thing! We take the whole lot and 
> program it into
> Java!.
> Itīs a lot of work, but everybody is quite happy about it. 
> And especially
> the programmers! - It great to be updated... Theres hardly no 
> restrictions
> on what you can programme - you can get the userinterface you 
> want etc..
> But itīs difficult to get experienced Java programmers, but 
> then again itīs
> impossible to get PH programmers....
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> Mikael Olesen
> dKF - Denmark
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