RE: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I disagree Trevor.  We all know that it is too expensive for most anybody to
personally own an up to date System i5.  What Brian Kelly is talking about
could take an industry by storm.  I think one area he missed is if IBM were
to modify RPG to be a first class language by taking out some archaic
features (i.e. fixed format) and add a few essential features to draw the
masses (i.e. something akin to a smart client for in-house users, and
seamless browser interfacing for external customers) - then watch the
customers flow in!  Look at how many are jumping ship to .NET even though
they may not have ANY .NET developers in house.  People are excited about
.NET because you can install Visual Studio and have your first DB driven web
app up and running in less than 1 hour.  Imagine if you didn't even have to
install the environment and it instead was completely ready for you to
develop - again, watch the customer flow in!

I must say that Brian's article was one of the most intriguing I have read
in a long time.  Exciting to hear somebody thinking in that vein.

Those are my thoughts,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

It's already done. Now I can run Windows on my Mac, I have Unix, Windows,
Mac i5/OS development tools and more available to me.

The all-everything mac is here - why are we wasting words on System i
desktop? System i is an application server. We use OTHER tools to develop
for the System i. This is a case of building a tool that is not needed.