Migrate off PowerHouse? Why? let that be Marketing for PowerHouse? Yes

[Vissers, Wilbert]

Good on you Bob Berry, Doug Moffatt, and Bob Deskin for stepping up on behalf of the ADT Development Team "where developer productivity never goes out of style".   After having been away from Powerhouse for a number of years, a comment from a professor teaching function point analysis continues to stick in my mind:  

He said "Powerhouse on the HP3000 was and still is by far the most productive environment that there ever has been in software development."

I have seen nothing in my time away from Powerhouse to alter that view.  I see Powerhouse as the main contributor to that productivity.  

Yet I continue to see Powerhouse, Powerbuilder, Informix, Delphi etc being relegated out of the mainstream in favour of J2EE and .Net, and marketable application suppliers using J2EE /.Net

IMHO new developers are the same as old, they just want to create great stuff and take pride in well structured 3-tiered, flexible, mobile, extensibe, web, cool, useful, etc things ... they just simply don't understand what Powerhouse does, how to fit it in and how to make it work.  Same goes for application suppliers I've been involved with, who don't know how to fit Powerhouse into a strategy to create competitive software.

Opportunity awaits.   Get agressive guys.   No B/S just tell it like it is, loudly.

Wilbert Vissers