Re: Marketing the platform was: System i - Mentioned twice in

Don wrote:

Joe wrote:
What's needed is to get the ISVs back on board.
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Joe, this is most likely the most important transitional step mentioned yet.
The applications drive the directions... the application drivers need to be
moving more in that direction, staying with the o/s(platform), and continue
development/support.

Yup, and there are a variety of options. I don't like them all technically, but they're there, ranging from pure RPG-CGI, which you can do with RDi and nothing else, or a PHP-based environment where you pay Zend for their tooling, or an SOA-based offering using EGL and RDi-SOA, or even a completely J2EE-based architecture using RDi and RAD.

The options are endless. And I've got demos that show that the basic architecture flies (at least the J2EE side, and Nathan can attest to the pure RPG side, although his stuff is proprietary). I'm getting 12 pages a SECOND on an EGL-based inquiry; it's nearly impossible to match that in a JDBC environment. But that part of the discussion veers once again into opinion (which architecture to use).

We need to prove to ISVs that the platform will sell software, and I think we're at the point where we can. But we need to focus on the right issues.

Joe