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Scott, I wholeheartedly, one-hundred-and-fourteen-percent, abso-gosh-darn- lutely agree with you!! It's hard to believe that IBM have still failed to acknowledge this massive gap in the AS/400 adoption curve. I guess all we can do is keep yelling about it. I know Hans & co. are sufficiently clued-in to pay attention to a list like this, but what about the marketing wonks? This would address one of the major problems with the AS/400 platform - and I know I might regret saying this - the aging population. Take the other major platforms - such as Windows and Unix - which can be learned and practised at home for minimal cost. This means that the people who are coming into IT these days are learning about PCs from an early age, and fewer are even hearing about the AS/400. These people leave college, take up jobs, and recommend to management the platforms they know about. Also, it's largely the youngsters who drive the development of languages and tools, by being keen to adapt to new technology. The established base of AS/400-savvy professionals seem by-and-large to be content to stay with established techniques, hence the slow penetration, for example, of ILE. Enough with the rambling! It's Friday evening. I'm away off home to play with my Dell, and maybe learn some more Java... ____________ Paul Cunnane The Learning Company ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: RPG Code on the NET Author: "Scott Klement" <infosys@klements.com> at InterNet Date: 24-09-99 9:57 am Hi Frank, I wasn't aware that you had put up a page where you placed free software, and others could contribute? I'd like to contribute stuff to this type of a situation, my problem is that I need to get the question of ownership and legality taken care of with my employer, first. I guess I think free software is great. Its a new and alien concept to most of the AS/400 world, but since I also like to play around with open source systems (I use FreeBSD, which is like Linux, except that its not as mainstream) I've found it to be very valuable, and would love to see it happen on an AS/400. However, I think IBM's policies that make it nearly impossible for people have AS/400's in their home make it difficult for this type of thing to happen -- and therefore, eventually things like FreeBSD and Linux will eventually replace the AS/400... They can already support all of the same types of functions, its free and theres lots of free software... And people can have them in their homes and get good at it... makes ya think, doesn't it? Anyway, whats the url of this page of yours? +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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