Hi Thorbjørn;
I totally agree with you. But the issue here is that OPM (and ILE for that
matter) is as vendor locked in as it can be ... it is 100% IBM / system i.
Many of our customers have the same concerns as you. But in the end of the
day they by into our product because they need the functionality and can not
afford steep learning curves and/or rewrite all the stuff to JAVA, PHP,
Groovy .. or what ever the hype of tomorrow is ...
Customers seams to have an "Add water - and I have a party" kind attitude
and want the job done ASAP because of the fast transitions in the IT-world
of today.
But I follow you: In a perfect world every thing is cross platform / cross
vendor / cross environment - and all tooling is open-source and having a
huge community. Until then we just have to be more pragmatic from the
application lifecycle perspective and use the tools available on the market
- and make your COBOL fly yet once again until the future arrives :)
Best regards
Niels Liisberg
System & Method Technologies
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: 26. maj 2008 19:28
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Impressions of EGL - Part Duex
Niels Liisberg skrev den 26-05-2008 14:23:
Thorbjørn wrote:
However, we would LOVE some easy glue (Plain Java is not easy) between
OPM Cobol and webservices and all the other stuff, and if EGL would do
that, I guess we would strongly consider it.
<<
Hi Thorbjørn;
There is a tool out there that maps virtually all service programs to
web-services. (Display files doesn?t work)
In your post you explicitly write "OPM", Will it be an option for you to
build a service-program that wraps your OPM cobol?
Hej Niels
I cannot tell you on the more intricate technical details, but I know
that IceBreak has been considered but I do not know what happened then.
However, IceBreak has the same basic problem seen from our point of view
as all the others, namely vendor lock-in. Can you guarantee that your
product will be updated and supported for the next X years? Including if
you happen to be bought by a competitor?
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