Re: Have the ILE compilers been transfered to IBM Rational?

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Richter wrote:
> 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?

quoting from the System i Network article
> 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. 

I'm struggling to find the words in the article that might lead one to 
ask whether IBM is stopping development on RPG.  In particular, he seems 
rather excited.  Reading between the lines, it might be argued that not 
having to split revenue/time/people between Rational's accountants and 
IBM's accountants will make RPG enhancements easier to fund.

I personally think of it as yet another internal IBM alignment.  In the 
past, RPG got renamed Websphere Development Studio ILE RPG but we still 
saw new cool things happen with RPG, despite being under the 'Websphere' 
umbrella.  I can't see that changing the name to 'Rational' will be much 
different.
  --buck