RE: Adoption of RPG OA

Jon,

As regards the magazine articles, I don't think that not having the
resources to implement whatever is discussed in them is a problem. For many
years, while I was still on a System/36, I read nearly every article in
DataNetwork/Midrange and News(whatever then) regarding RPG III, database,
etc. In many cases I was able to at least use the ideas presented, others
prepared me (I hoped then) for a move to AS/400, and others were just
interesting as hell.

This still applies even though I'm currently mired in V5R1. I still read
the articles about Power7 and 7.1.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:55 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Adoption of RPG OA


On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:39 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

There is a always another option - Time for us to put our opensource hats

on! :-)

And that is where I get really frustrated by the licensing etc. Larry.
Magazine articles and Open Source type projects are not likely to
proliferate until you know your audience can get their hands on the required
software pre-reqs. Right now it is a bit like writing code for a target
audience that hasn't got the RPG compiler!


Jon Paris