Re: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You have to open source the system for it to grow and prosper. The OS,ILE,

and RPG.  ( DB2 is not needed if the code which couples the database to the
OS is published. )

Open source and open spec can both give life and destroy life.  Look at how
long it has taken HTML5 to get legs and take off because of all the cooks in
the kitchen.  Look at the results of Sun with all of it's open source (data
bases, languages, and operating systems).  By not being open source you can
make things happen a lot faster IMO, because many times that means you
control more ends of the spectrum and can make things more integrated.  In
the end it is more an issue of personality than open source that ails the
IBMi/RPG community.  Though we are definitely making tracks, though it is
still no where near other communities.

But the personality comes from the open source base. More than a few
people would try IBM i kernel development if not simply to kick the
tires and the curiousity factor. From that you get community and
personality.

Using Silverlight for user interfacing applications is a bit like VisualAge
for RPG - always behind and never quite works like the true server
language.

I guarantee anyone who gives Silverlight a few weeks of effort will
find the time well spent. With XAML you are able to spin up a user
interface in the time it takes to write psuedo code. Your client code,
written in C# or VB, runs in the browser but interacts with the server
thru web service calls. So you get instant deployment of your
application, but without all the CSS, Javascript, HTML, server
side/client side stuff that complicates web programming. For business
apps, where you can control that your users are on the right level of
Mac or Windows OS, SL is arguably the present and future way to write
applications. IBM i can be the server side of the web service calls of
a SL client just as well as IIS.