RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

You need to learn a lot about IT industry and ethics of a programmer Eric 
a long way to go ,still ahead of you.....takes time.............
I can understand that.....

Kris Kottapali

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Merritt [mailto:cyberlync@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:43 AM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison


Sorry guys I had to chime in here.


> Same for JAVA like, "Microsoft doesn't support it". 
> Oooh, don't guess those 
> are initials.  Does make a point though, unless Sun
> takes over the desktop, 
> JAVA's future has been _SEVERELY_ limited...

What kind of statement is this? Is this not an AS/400
list. Your basically saying that because microsoft
does not support it is dead? If that is the case, then
the 400 is going to die, VMS is going to die, RPG is
going to die, the RS6000 is going to die, COBOL is
going to die etc. In short this statement is one of
the most poorly considered statements I have seen on
this list. 

IBM supports java on all its systems and on windows
and the desktop.
Sun has provided the best VM on the market for windows
(The Hotspot VM). 

Java is becoming a standard enterprise language
because it is so well supported in enterprise
environments partly by IBM, partly by Sun and others. 

Microsoft does not hold all the intellectual capital
in this industry, far from it.

 So how is it going to be limited?
 
Now don't get me wrong, I realize that this statement
was made in, a probably emotional, response to someone
bashing RPG. Still, think about what you wright before
you write it, otherwise you are just advertising your
possible ignorance to the group.

=====
Eric Merritt
Information Systems Consultant
McCormack & Associates, Inc.
Rock Hill, South Carolina
(V) 803-327-3358 X 225
eric@mccinc.com
http://www.mccinc.com/

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