Re: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:25:12 -0500
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[Justin Taylor]

If you had a compelling business case to abandon RPG, shouldn't you move to a mainstream, preferably cross-platform, language?

[Matt Olson]

.NET FTW. Once you go LINQ, you never go back :-)

.NET doesn't satisfy "preferably cross-platform" very well, at least
not yet. Microsoft has made some concrete moves to change that,
though.

John

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