RE: Platform Independence (was George is Farr from where we want tobe)

A LOT of that statement is dependant on this "...and a lot of iseries sales
come on the back of sales of vendor apps...".  I would be curious to know
what those numbers are compared to RPG shops creating home grown solutions,
and how many of those home grown solutions are deemed as archaic and
platform migration is happening from iSeries to Microsoft.

I don't think IBM even knows how big of a problem platform migration is.
They wont hear about it in any particular shop until migration has already
started or is complete.  In most shops I would guess that the iSeries is
simply becoming an expensive DB server.  Granted it is a great place to
store your data in a reliable fashion, but it can do so much more and it is
already paid for!

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colin Williams
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Subject: Re: Platform Independence (was George is Farr from where we want
tobe)

Michael,

platform independence is probably more important to vendors, and a lot of
iseries sales come on the back of sales of vendor apps, so its important to
IBM...


On 28/03/07, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How important is platform independence to the community? It has little 
importance to me. I believe RPG is the best language on iSeries, and I 
don't need to write the same code to run on multiple platforms. I *do* 
write code on multiple platforms (VB and C on Wintel), but I don't 
expect or want to run the *same* code on other platforms.

On 3/28/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

While in that session I was very close to asking the group whether 
they

gave

a rip about platform independence.

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