Re: AS/400 Future Market Share

> its a main stream media conspiracy! ... the article makes no mention
> of the needed technical improvements which are not happening for the
> system.  
As usual, more Steve Richter FUD.  Steve, I'm pretty sure that you are
not privy to the internal workings of IBM, and therefore do not actually
know what technical improvements that they are (or are not) working on.

> The QINTER subsystem cant run multi threaded jobs which means
> JAVA cant be used for green screen programming.
As if anyone would want to use Java for that.  NONE of my customers has
ever asked for such a thing.

>  The 10 character name
> limit.  
We've been through this before.  There are at least 36^10
(3656158440062976) usable names, just using A-Z and 0-9.

> The system APIs have to be reworked to use JAVA objects. 
No they don't.  They work fine from any ILE program.

> Because RPG cant multithread it does not work well for server side
> apps like web serving.
Nonsense.  Lots of shops use RPG/CGI with the built in apache server.
Sockets work extremely well from an RPG program.  Lack of thread support
*does not* mean that a language will be unsuccessful at web serving.
Ever have a look at givedescriptor/takedescriptor?  

>    Would help a lot if RPG was upgraded just
> like MSFT has continued to upgrade VB.
Ha!  If IBM developed RPG the way microsoft developed visual basic, then
we would all have to rewrite our applications for each new release.  A
hearty 'no thank you'.