Re: Slashdiot article about P6

On 1/7/07, M. Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve,

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At 1/7/07 08:36 AM, you wrote:
> > > What about Zend? Would be great if that company bought i5/OS. They
> > > know how to write great software.
> >
> > Doubtful they are big enough.  But assuming they were to write a new OS,
> > what features of i5/OS would you be looking for ?
>
>there are so many. i5/OS has not been improved since the early 1990s.

 Either you are on a *very* old release or you just ignore / don't
care about the huge improvements that have been made to the system
since the early 1990's.  Either way, it's a false statement.

V5R1 was a very good release. It finalized some good work with PASE,
teraspace, SQL procedures, the coupling of all the languages so
everyone had ILE C. RPG also had some good features like qualified
structs by V5R1.  that was in 2000?  I am not aware of much added
since then.

>add XML support to DB2. Decouple db2 from i5/OS.

 Is XML support an inherent feature of *any* database?  I doubt
it.  It's an "object or data set" that gets created / processed by an
application.

DB2 has it. on the p5!
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/

-Steve