Re: Re: Resort back to RPG?

> From: "Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@masi-brac.com>
> I need to be platform independent and I need to
> get there in a hurry.

Joel,

Why does your application need to be platform independent?  And if the
answer is because the boss says so, why does the boss need it?  Just
curious, I am.

Have you even known of any database business application of substantial
scope that was platform independent?  Is there such a thing?  The moment
that an application generates a spool file, or uses a data queue, or calls a
system API, or incorporates a CL command, it's no longer independent.

There must be hundreds of things that may lock an application into a single
platform.  Even middleware vendors offer "essential" features in their
products that eventually link the business application to a particular
platform.

Is "platform-independence" now the politically correct term meaning that it
must run under Wintel?  But connect with data via JDBC?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com