RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison

[Bill Brosch <bbrosch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

Same things can apply to RPG & CL.

If they are badly written, or java is badly written, portability
suffers.

RPG & CL can have hard-coded libraries, etc.  All this can affect
portibility.

Bill Brosch
Swift Technologies

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:41 AM
To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Aaron Bartell's RPG/Java comparison


> What happens when and I.S. manager decides to discontinue all 
> support for
> an AS/400 and move too Oracle or NT/2000. Unfortunately RPG 
> cant port to
> those systems. 

easy, that manager is fired because of a stupid move.

But honestly, we've seen this.  We bought a company who had unix,
running
java.  they needed to upgrade hardware.  We bought them a killer
multi-proc
as400.  They tried to port and port and port for over a year.  Finally
ended
up using a software package developed in RPG.

Brad
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