Re: RPG compiler for LINUX!!!

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

Hans,

My company has been providing RPG based solutions for a looooong time.  We've
recently been looking at Linux as a communications server for our AS/400 shops.

Now from recent news/rumors ... News: IBM will offer DB2 for free (free is good)
for Linux.  Rumor: IBM will support/port Linux to the IPCS.  News flash via
David: Linux will support RPG.  Sounds more like complimentary then competitive
to us! ;-)

>From our view point, it just makes the AS/400 more competitive to those shops
that care about uptime.  And broadens our market base.  Can we say win/win?  I
knew you could. :-)

James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com


>
>
> I don't know if I should be offering encouragement to
> a possible "competitor", but I'd just like to point
> out something that some readers of this mailing list
> may not be fully aware of.  Since Jason F has made the
> "Eraserhead RPG" a GNU style open source project, he
> is implicitly inviting everyone to help out in writing
> code and/or documentation for the project.  So, don't
> just send him encouragements, send him offers to help!
>
> (In case anyone asks, don't say it was me who said
> this! :-)
>
> Cheers!  Hans
>
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
>
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