George Farr says he and the development tools team now report to the
IBM Rational division. What about ILE and the compilers? Does this
mean no more new RPG BIFs?
-Steve
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/w/1001/n/5021/i/6503/a/54657/index.html
So George, we heard about some major internal changes at IBM between
Rational and WebSphere — what's all that about?
Application development tools for System i were moved into Rational in
the last month or so, consolidating under one Software Group brand the
development tools for all of IBM's hardware platforms. One benefit of
this move will be a better alignment of Rational's suite of software
development lifecycle tools with System i. As a result of the
transition, Rational is currently in the process of evaluating the
packaging strategy for System i tools. This is great news for System i
customers. We expect to have a broad focus on the System i platform,
and we are quite excited about better serving the needs of System i
customers. All of the usual IBM System i evangelists whom System i
customers are used to dealing with from IBM's Rochester and Toronto
labs have moved to Rational, along with the outstanding tools they
have built, so we won't lose a step in terms of the deep understanding
that we have of the System i platform, technologies, and customers. We
do hope to bring a fresh and bright perspective to the System i tools
arena, though, and we will announce, along with the System i team in
Rochester, the new System i tools strategy later this year.
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