Re: Jon Paris post -- EGL-I

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Jon Paris wrote:

Well the folks on IBM's AlphaWorks don't seem dso down on PHP as you are.

Ah, there's no accounting for taste. Some people like .NET <grin>.

More to the point, RPG-CGI or PHP gets the box back in the game then that's what matters.

Well, if RPG-CGI or PHP can keep someone on the box, then I'm not going to argue.

We both know that we'll never agree on this so I won't waste my breath.

Not sure what we're not agreeing on - if it's whether PHP or RPG-CGI are technically sound approaches, you're right, we're unlikely to agree but more importantly Pete's not interested in the argument, and he runs the list. <smile>

However, we both know that technical superiority is a pointless argument - if it mattered we'd all be running on "i" with OS/2 on our desktops!

Yeah, but if IBM had made more noise at the time about OS/2, we might actually be seeing that.

What I find amazing is that after all the complaints about how IBM won't market the i (or OS/2 for that matter) now that we do have a superior arhitecture that IBM is behind, as a community we're so reluctant to back them up. Not sure what my point is, I just find it interesting.

Joe

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