Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

Coming from the standpoint of a person who prefers an Olds (recently
discontinued by GM)....I think a degree of competitiveness is very healthy
and good for those of us in the end user environment.  The problem with
too much supply of vendors with conflicting standards/systems/languages is
that it does more to fragment the industry than help with moving along
developments...so, there is a degree of limitation one would hope to be
able to live in orhave.

Don in DC

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Booth Martin wrote:

> Is it all or nothing World for MS & IBM?  Must we have just Ford?  Or just
> Chevy?  Isn't there room for two competing product lines?
>
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> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: 05/20/05 12:51:46
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?
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> On 5/20/05, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I can connect from my RPG program to a DB2 database on Windows or Linux.
>
> I did not know that.  Is it something in SQL?
>
> > I can access MySQL from Perl or something I suppose. I can't imagine why
> > I would want to access SQL Server.
>
> because the users want it.
>
> > What is the importance in being able to access different databases from
> > RPG? I can see that that could be imoprtant for a Windows developer
> > since there are so many databases out there, but why would one care
> > about accessing SQL Server from RPG?
> >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?
> > > From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri, May 20, 2005 1:10 pm
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > On 5/20/05, Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > One can only hope that after selling off the Printing Division
> (Lexmark),
> > > > Storage Division (Hitachi) and PC Division (Lenovo) that they might
> sell
> > > > off the iSeries division.  THEN we'd probably see some serious
> hardball
> > > > promotion from the new owners, who may just revive the AS/400 name.
> > >
> > > Great idea to sell the as400 to another company!  The new owners will
> > > have a lot of work to do technically improving the system.  In .NET I
> > > can connect to the SqlServer, MySQL and iSeries database.  An iSeries
> > > RPG application can only use the iSeries database.  That is IBM
> > > management making that decision.
> > >
> > > -Steve
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