Re: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(: -- RPG400-L

I second the motion


GO BRAD!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:01 AM
Subject: RE: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(:


> > >--snip--
> > >
> > >> RPG is not
> > >> the language of choice for creating web pages or generating
> > >> HTML - CGI,
> > >> Perl, and Java are much more common.
> > >
> > >Says you.
> >
> > I've never ever seen a help wanted ad "Wanted: Web Developer.  Must be
> > fluent in RPG."  That is sad reality.
>
> Look closer.  When an add says "CGI programmer" it doesn't matter.  The
> language can be almost anything, and if their platform is AS/400, it
> wouldn't (or should I say shouldn't) take much to convince them RPG is the
> way to go.  It seems when folks "open their minds" to new technologies,
the
> close their minds to others.  Sad.
> >
> > Brad, it has nothing to do (sadly) with ability - look at
> > Beta vs. VHS etc.
>
> If I hear the Beta vs. VHS example again I'm gonna puke.  :)  Next it will
> be DAT vs. CD, etc. etc.  Next will be CD vs. DVD.  It's all opinion.
Fact
> has little or nothing to do with it (otherwise RPG would be used by
everyone
> for CGI programming.)  <bg>
>
> > It has to do with what the market desires.  RPG can't do one
> > huge thing that
> > Perl and Java can both do: run on cheap PC hardware.  It's
> > that simple.
>
> That's because RPG is a proprietary language on a machine sold by a
company
> who is sells hardware, not software.  If IBM was in the market to sell
> software, RPG would be ported to a PC.
>
> Two things.. ASNA's visual RPG runs on a PC and does CGI.  So there is RPG
> on a PC.  SEcond, it's a sad day when a PC is the desired hardware
platform
> to run a bussiness.
>
> > Until you and I and the rest of the folks on the list CREATE
> > a market for
> > Web-RPG programmers, there will simply be no market for e-RPG.  But
> > eventually, when the slow adopters we (the midrange market)
> > work for decide
> > to webify their business if we have Web skills, we'll
> > probably put the 400
> > on the Web.  If we don't then a consultant will put in an
> > Apache server and
> > that will be that.
>
> Agreed.  So why not try harder to squash the hype.  The IT world is not
> boy-bands.  It's your Van Halens, Rolling Stones, Rushs, etc.. that end up
> the real winners instead of one-hit wonders.  Out of every batch of fad
> bands, one or two do make it.
>
> Too many non-tech managers are being heard and not enough folks who end up
> doing the work.  They're too busy trying to please their boss by learning
> every new technique that comes along to even think about speaking their
> opinions.
>
> Brad
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