RE: Green screen to GUI

> Joe Pluta wrote:
> Let's be clear on this.  The MAP was not intended to
> be about integrating WITH the iSeries, it was about
> REPLACING the iSeries.

Good point, Joe.  No matter how Microsoft soft peddles
the Midrange Alliance Program, the ultimate goal is to
move people off the iSeries.

On a positive note, I've had a good experience the
past few days working with a couple young programmers
who grew up on PHP and J2EE technologies, but were
nudged recently into trying RPG and Relational-Web,
and are expressing quite a bit of approval.

PDM and SEU and the iSeries debugger have been a bit
of a challenge, but ILE, SQL, and service programs
seem to be a natural extension of their prior
experience.

To begin with, we're converting a PHP application to
RPG, and using the iSeries database instead of mySQL. 
The HTML templates from the PHP application required
just a few minor changes.  They're impressed with the
performance of the new program, particularly when
generating result sets of thousand of records.

Nathan Andelin.




                
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