Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

[Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah...I do it all the time...CONNECT TO...

On 5/20/05 01:49 PM, "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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