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A post from someone at ASNA on Chris Maxcer's blog addressing the .NET vs
Power Platform competition. It got my attention because I think competition
is a good thing for IBM and us in its orbit. It gets the organization
thinking, moving and doing. The hope is IBM will improve the native
programmability of IBM i, just like .NET made it easier to program apps on
Windows.
-Steve
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http://blogs.systeminetwork.com/isnblogs/maxedout/2008/05/revisiting_the_new_power_names.html#comments
Since the announcement of yet another change in the naming and support
structure for i, we have seen at ASNA an increasing amount of organizations
contacting us about their i strategy going forward and the option of
extending or modernizing their RPG applications to .NET.
There seems to be a growing apprehension in the community and they don't
seem to like yet another i story. In addition, the very fact that Denny
refers to "Power Platform vs a Windows Server" shows just how far Microsoft
has come in building the perception of .NET as a viable enterprise
competitor to i, even amongst i loyalists.
Marketing of the new i will really have to be extra special to reduce the
growing uncertainty around i, especially given the seemingly viable
alternative to i available in .NET.
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