ILE vs CLI. was V5R3

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:20 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: V5R3


>> >> This is not rocket science, IBM has to either get on board with CLI (
>>search the web for ECMA CLI ) or improve ILE.

>I don't disagree about the importance of CLI.  I just don't believe that it
>will be the deciding factor in the live/die decision.

okay. What about what it indicates about the level of commitment to the
operating system/programming language market?  MS is spending billions on
its languages and operating systems. Is IBM willing to match that spending
to remain competitive?

>From the MS site it would appear that the source code for a port is
>available.  Since the code supplied will run on BSD how  hard can it be to
>port to Linux/AIX on the iSeries.  For that matter how hard is a native
>port?

If Mono ( an open source CLI/C# project ) was running on the Linux side of
the iSeries, the benefits would not be available where they are needed, in
the RPG and Java appl development. It is ILE C++ and Java that have to be
made CLI compliant.

>In other words - what has ILE got to do with it.

ILE is not just the iSeries's version of CLI, it is all of IBM's.  With ILE
trailing CLI feature wise, with MS still working to improve CLI while IBM is
not working to improve ILE, you really have to wonder what is going on.

-Steve