Re: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/15/05, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Because it's getting cheaper to keep the platform alive.  The hardware
> is now shared; the last step is to finish ripping out the IPO/IOA
> architecture.  Once done, an AS/400 or iSeries can truly just be a
> pSeries running i5/OS.  AIX isn't going away anytime soon, so neither
> will the hardware.
> 
> As an iSeries fan, it's painful to say it may devolve into a pSeries
> running a guest OS, but the heart of the 400 has always been the OS.
> 
> What's left is software & support.  Even just milking the installed
> based for upgrades should be a profitable venture for years to come.
> Look at what JDE did with World.  Major development essentially stopped
> a long time ago and yet Oracle is still committed to suck up license
> revenue, um, support the app, for another 8 years.
> 
> Even if future enhancements only serve to tread water from a technology
> standpoint, the i5/OS platform will exist in one way or another for many
> years to come.
> 

Hopefully they will spin us off as a separate company.  With IBM
continuing to sell the pSeries hardware that os400 runs on.

-Steve