Re: INLR no longer required?

Hi Nancy

Probably about as many as are using only Java!

IMO, no one in their right mind is replacing entire application suites of home-grown software with Java, much less PHP.

We have a 20-30 year repository of code in our applications. It all still works, of course. It's written in CL and RPG (III & IV with some elements of II).

It isn't going away. Do we want to modernize presentation? Yes. We're starting to do that now with the SEQUEL reporting and query product.

I may have to temper my statement above a little - there has to be a very very good reason to justify throwing out such a repository as we have - many companies have the same kind of thing.

I think PHP is great for what it can do - it can nicely expand the viability of this platform, with things like SugarCRM that can basically just be dropped in place and work.

And RPG is still alive and well, contrary to any mis-statements you may have caught. It is much more alive than the parrot in that Monty Python sketch!

If you get a chance, if your company will support training, consider attending one of the RPG&DB2 Summit conferences that are given by Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, and Paul Tuohy - many sessions on PHP. And many sessions on RPG and DB2 and SQL.

And you'll hear the truth there - not the confusing things you seem to have been told - and keep on participating here - I've learned so much over the last 16 years I've been involved with these lists.

Cheers
Vern

On 12/4/2013 7:00 AM, newnancy@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank
you for your reply, Vernon. But how many companies are using RPG now?
Aren't they using PHP?


Thank you,
Nancy

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