RE: an interview with someone from the new IBM

On the UI side, they've been working through their own internal warfare and

I think they've finally settled into a single UI paradigm, and it's largely
based on the Eclipse rich client.

Just wanted to understand where the Eclipse rich client reference is going -
are you referring to EGL's thick client stuff being based on the RCP? I
read your article in ibmsystemsmag.com (I believe that's the mag) and was
intrigued by EGL's syntax - almost a nice in-between of Java and RPG. Might
even make me want to try it out some day. What is EGL going to cost a shop
per developer next year? Are we back to the $4k mark?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 10:31 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: an interview with someone from the new IBM

From: Steve Richter

When did IBM mgmt lose confidence in the ability of its own employees
to write great software? IBMers had done a good job creating ILE. But
mgmt for some reason halted any followup improvements.

Steve, I know your heart is usually in the right place, but this is kind of
silly. i5/OS continues to outpace anything else out there in terms of pure
business operating environments.

IBM's recent push has been virtualization, and to that end if you've seen
their virtual LPAR capability, you'll see that it's every bit as powerful as
VMWare.

On the UI side, they've been working through their own internal warfare and
I think they've finally settled into a single UI paradigm, and it's largely
based on the Eclipse rich client.

Joe


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