RE: How to move forward

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   4. RE: How to move forward (Joe Pluta)
>
>All of the other approaches, from RPG-CGI to Net.Data to the many
>Unix-based specialty languages, are little more than stopgaps.  None
>have reached any level of widespread acceptance.  This statement might
>be challenged by some, but rather than rely on zealous advocacy, you
>should instead do some research to see how many businesses in your
>particular market niche use any given technology.  Also, all of these
>lesser known solutions tend to be at least somewhat proprietary.  Sure,
>you can run Python on an iSeries, but who's going to support you when
>your website crashes with an unknown error?  Not IBM.

Probably _LOTS_ of debate available on the paragraph as a whole. But I'm 
curious about the final question in particular. Why would IBM not support it? 
How would it be any different from IBM supporting FTP or ODBC after exit 
programs from a 3rd-party vendor were installed? What about supporting a 
crashed web site that includes web-enabled applications after 3rd-party 
conversion to alter dspf I/O statements to 3rd-party external calls to handle 
JSPs?

I'm not clear on why Python applications would be any different as long as 
source is available. Certainly the customer must be prepared to handle such 
crashes first as an application bug before deciding to turn it over to IBM, but 
even application support is possible.

Tom Liotta

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