RE: AS/400 Future Market Share

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Don't feed the trolls...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: AS/400 Future Market Share
> From: Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, November 22, 2005 11:55 am
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > its a main stream media conspiracy! ... the article makes no mention
> > of the needed technical improvements which are not happening for the
> > system.  
> As usual, more Steve Richter FUD.  Steve, I'm pretty sure that you are
> not privy to the internal workings of IBM, and therefore do not actually
> know what technical improvements that they are (or are not) working on.
> 
> > The QINTER subsystem cant run multi threaded jobs which means
> > JAVA cant be used for green screen programming.
> As if anyone would want to use Java for that.  NONE of my customers has
> ever asked for such a thing.
> 
> >  The 10 character name
> > limit.  
> We've been through this before.  There are at least 36^10
> (3656158440062976) usable names, just using A-Z and 0-9.
> 
> > The system APIs have to be reworked to use JAVA objects. 
> No they don't.  They work fine from any ILE program.
> 
> > Because RPG cant multithread it does not work well for server side
> > apps like web serving.
> Nonsense.  Lots of shops use RPG/CGI with the built in apache server.
> Sockets work extremely well from an RPG program.  Lack of thread support
> *does not* mean that a language will be unsuccessful at web serving.
> Ever have a look at givedescriptor/takedescriptor?  
> 
> >    Would help a lot if RPG was upgraded just
> > like MSFT has continued to upgrade VB.
> Ha!  If IBM developed RPG the way microsoft developed visual basic, then
> we would all have to rewrite our applications for each new release.  A
> hearty 'no thank you'.
> 
> 
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