Re: cloud services with new development on IBM i on Power

FUD? No. Personal experience? Yes.

Sure thousands of API's may not have changed but it seemed many of the ones I chose, for instance much of the *easy* coding I did in Access 95/98, never made it much past Access 2000 and it was only because I was able to jury-rig Access 2000 to run in Windows 7 that I was able to keep the app alive for my customer. You guys must rock if you have apps written for Windows 95 that are still running on Windows 8 without coding tweaks. I probably had issues because rather than being a "classically trained" programmer, I am just a seat of the pants kind of guy. I do what is easiest and has a future (at least *my* future).

I love writing code. On i, on Windows, on Linux using RDP, MyEclipse, VS2012. I do them all. I just had enough bad experiences with Microsoft changing API's and licensing that I found the open source world more productive and less costly. Those bad experiences went back over 10 years but frankly, once bitten, twice shy, as they say (or maybe, when it comes to Microsoft: "Once bitten, twice i" since we are coining catch phrases :-) )

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 5/17/2013 8:06 AM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Pete,

We must have used some of the thousands of API's that didn't change across the boundaries from Windows 95 to Windows 2012 and .Net versions.

Some of our older VB and VB.Net apps have worked all the way across the spectrum of OS's and .Net releases including our code that uses JT400.DLL to talk to the i. JT400 rocks in .Net:-)

Now of course if you've built apps in MS Office, mileage may vary:-)

Just because all i is your religion, don't spread FUD, unless you're just relaying your personal experiences, but call it that because you're representing perhaps a small minority of developer experiences and perhaps your own.

i, Windows or Linux in the cloud, Pick your flavor:-)

I'm starting to find that catchy.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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