RE: WDSC and Linux

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Big Blue has sacrificed platform independence (at least for now) to get
better tools than CODE/400 in your hands before you defect to a more popular
platform. 
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I hope to defect this year yet.  I am taking up .NET using Visual Studio.
'Help' in WDSc looks like meal worms compared to the 'Help' in Visual
Studio.  That is just one area where M$ kicks IBM's butt.  IBM would have
done better to create their own language rather than stick with Java.  I am
picking up the .NET environment way faster than Java, and that is because
everything is so much more seamless to the Microsoft developer.  It just
frustrates me I guess, IBM has a kick butt server and database, but less
than adequate development environment.  

People like Joe Pluta would say everything is there that one could possibly
need, and he would say that Java is much farther along than .NET - and he
would probably be right, but he is a Java  guru at the top of his pack.  Try
being a RPG/Java developer and make use of all the needed tools.  They are
just too far out there for the average person to make sense of them in a
timely manner.  I am sure I could make them all work together if I was given
a certain amount of time, but time is not what I have.

>...you're likely to get your wish. Bummer!

Not soon enough for me. :-(

Sorry for the rant, but I couldn't help it. . .

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Mackie, Roger L. (Precision Press) [mailto:RLMackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:21 AM
To: 'CODE/400 Discussion & Support'
Subject: RE: WDSC and Linux


Aaron,

Yours may be the minority opinion in this thread, but IBM has aimed the
current version of WSDC at developers like you. Big Blue has sacrificed
platform independence (at least for now) to get better tools than CODE/400
in your hands before you defect to a more popular platform. It's not only
Linux that is shut-out of WSDC until the iSeries plug-ins are made platform
independent--it's Apple OS X, too. I'd switch back to the betamax of
personal computing platforms in a flash if my boss or I could afford it.
Programming for a Power PC (iSeries) on a Power PC (Mac)--that would be
sweet in my book.

However, I can't even begin to cajole my boss (or wife) into upgrading to
the other Power PC platform as long as the preferred iSeries development
tools don't run on OS X (without Virtual PC and an exorbitant Windows
license). As long as the MS herd mentality dominates IT and personal
computing, you're likely to get your wish. Bummer!

Roger Mackie

-----Original Message-----
From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:37
To: 'CODE/400 Discussion & Support'
Subject: RE: WDSC and Linux


I am going to take the minority here, but if making it Windows dependant
also made it faster, I would be the first one to say "Hurray!".  I have a
kick butt machine loaded with memory (1Gig) and it takes 10 seconds to paste
100 lines of code.  That is way to slow!  Sun's IDE (Sun ONE Studio) doesn't
take nearly that long, and from what I understand it is all written in Java.
What's the big difference?

I guess my vote would be _against_ making an effort to port it entirely to
Linux (or platform independence, however you want to say it).  I would be in
more favor of making the thing run at industry standard speeds.

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