Re: RPG TALENT--Global issue

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:40 PM 5/28/98 -0500, Ravi wrote:
>Most of the AS/400 shops run some packaged software (JDE, BPCS,
>JBA etc.) for their mission critical applications. Source code for these
>apps is still RPG. Consequently, any custom mods, extensions will be
>done in RPG. The programming language of choice will probably be defined
>by the package vendors. Porting the apps to Java will be a major
>re-write for these vendors. Will the benefits outweigh the effort??

Ravi,

While this is almost true today, it is changing rapidly. JBA has a client 
server version. I'm not sure what the server code is written in, but the client 
is VB. JDE still has an RPG version (as does JBA), but the One World product is 
written using a program generator that can create C++ for Wintel systems, C for 
the AS/400 and java for whatever. I'd bet you five bucks that two years from 
now, JDE's One World will be well on the way to replacing the majority of the 
World and World Vision RPG systems. It's the more intuitive and powerful user 
interface that will be the motivating factor. I'll grant you that RPG will 
still be around, but I doubt there will be much new code developed in it.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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