Re: Beyond RPG CGI

Interesting point about Apache Brad,   I was talking to the person from
Apache.org about the iSeries implementation,  and he was said that the
other open source people were very suprised at Roch. having Apache 2.0 not
only up and running but SUPPORTED (as he said).  Everyone else was just
playing with 2.0 at the time.

They (ie Roch)  did a lot of work to make it "Really" threadsafe I believe.

So,  is it "Real" open source or proprietaryized open source.  I don't
know.
I do know that we were the first "Supported" Apache 2.0 machine out there
that was "Really" thread safe.

Here's a snippet I got back from the Open Source people at www.apache.org.
(Yes, it was from one of my "Writing to the Editor's things")

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<SNIP>

>The only other response to this section so far is asking how come IBM have
>made the product something that is stable and supportable whilst Apache
>2.0.* from the Apache group is far from stable.
> Cheers, Mark

<SNIP>
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That's from an dyed in the wool Open Source Apache person.

I don't get the impression that HE thought it was proprietaryized, he was
too busy being impressed that 2.0 was up and Supported while

Now, What were you saying again Brad?


John Carr

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I don't consider the AS/400 open today.  IBM took other
products (apache, linux, etc) and moved them to their system
in a proprietary fashion.

"Open" would be letting me download Apache from apache.org
and install it on my AS/400.

Its like they had their own country consiting only of blue
people and they were called "closed".  So they took some
"purple" people into their colony, did some fancy
restructuring of their DNA, cloned them and say "look, we
now have purple people".  It's not like they just opened
their doors and let everyone in, which is what we'd like to
see.

This isn't necisarilly a bad thing, because it is the best
box going.  The blue people have it made with little or no
occurances of natural disasters.  But I can see that down
the road it may be more of a problem.  :)