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On 6-Oct-08, at 5:22 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm curious about the above. Anyone know why other than to be a "me too" environment?

Real simple Dave - and nothing to do with "me too".

Most of the really good PHP applications (and for that matter the bad ones) use MySQL. As does most anything written for the LAMP stack. If the software is available with a DB2 option (which some like MANTIS do) then it is not an issue. But having to manually modify (say) SugarCRM to move it from MySQL to DB2 would somewhat nullify the attractiveness of such solutions.

So step 1 was to implement MySQL in PASE. That was great and got round that hurdle - but other than ODBC etc. it meant that you could not code RPG/CL/COBOL etc. to write reports from the underlying DB. By implementing a DB2 storage engine we get the best of both worlds - including our normal RPG native access, embedded SQL access, _and_ anything we want to do with MySQL itself from within PASE apps such as those written in PHP, Python, Java, etc.

Sounds a great deal to me!

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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