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

Steve,

You still owe me an answer!

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From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>

But obviously I dont have the answers to this puzzle because if IBM's
prime focus now is to move system i customers to its other systems
before they move to a competitor, they would immediately put i5/OS in
a p5 partition and drop i5 hardware all together.

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From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>

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

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:20:40 AM
Subject: Re: Have the ILE compilers been transfered to IBM Rational?


It is rude. You can think what you want about how glorious IBM is but
your mistaken to apply that view to me one way or the other. My post
is a question. Have languages and ILE been moved to Rational. If so,
the mandate is for all IBM language enhancements to apply to all
platforms. ILE RPG only works on system i. Will the rational team put
any resources into improving RPG?

-Steve

On 5/3/07, eduard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <eduard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Steve,

Some how, based on all the messages I've seen from you, I do not believe
you.
Even in this realm and in many others I sense so much eagerness to stir
ideas of discomfort with the platform, the OS, the languages, IBM and
unnamed more aspects of i5 and the prediction that all this in little time
will seas to exist.
All this constantly stirs the feeling off 'Watch out boy, on i5 you are on
the wrong track, better to look out for the better.'.

I can not combine that with your goal of more i5/OS sold.
I can not combine that with your wish for growing demand and an improved
OS.
I can not combine your wish of improving the OS with your many proposals
to get rid of a lot of things that makes this OS so different and
outstanding compared with other Os's and as a result will make it just as
bad as the others.
I can not combine that with the many remarks where the products of others
are always better, more advanced, faster, easier to program, cheaper, and so
much more ..... compared with what ever is available on i5.

If that grass somewhere else is really that much greener, what on earth
are you doing on this damn bad platform?
Some how I have the feeling that the 'Honest' part in my questions is not
mistakenly left out from your snippet.

I hope I'm wrong and we have not a nice version of an 'intriguer' amongst
us.

Kind regards,
Eduard.