Re: Impressions of EGL - Part Duex

Niels Liisberg skrev den 26-05-2008 20:42:

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 :)

I fully understand your point of view, and also recognize that "this is the simplest way to get from here to there now" is quite a pragmatic approach to many things.

I also believe that telling people that the world does not HAVE to be like "just use the best tool, since it will be unsupported anyway in 5 years", and perhaps things might change someday given enough people asking for it. That is at least what I gather from what Joe Pluta says about the new Rational Developer - that those who decide can be reached.

Now that I have you - have you managed to build an industrial strength web server in RPG or does IceBreak use Apache or something else for that?