RE: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(:

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

The thing is that up until Brad Stone wrote his book RPG programmers had no
hope of writing web applications unless they went to another platform or
tried to run Perl or something on the AS/400 they have.

Now they can learn how to write CGI pgm's using RPG as their choice of
language!  How cool is that.  Brad is a pioneer!  Hurray Brad.

I will help Brad out with his cause.  We have the perfect market!  How many
"e-RPG" programmers are there out there?  Not many.  How many AS/400 boxes
are there out there with loads of data just waiting to get out to the web?
Thousands.  How many people in your AS/400 shop know RPG but  don't know
NET.BLOB or Websphere?  Most likely 100%.

Now we have the perfect chance to allow RPG to shine as a language.  You
have a great start if you are willing to start creating static pages.  Now
make the same page using RPG.  It is not that hard.  

Good luck Buck,
Aaron Bartell
HTML programmer -  well not really but it sounds cool;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:19 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(:


I asked myself this: "What did I do today to help create an RPG web
programming market?"
Cheering Brad on will help his spirits but not his cause.

Buck 

ps.  Here's how I answered that question:
I got official authority to tinker with an intranet web server on our
AS/400.
I visited http://www.as400.ibm.com and took the Library link, then Tech
Studio.  
I'm setting up my static web server now.
It's a start...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lutz 
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:37 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Future of AS/400 ??????????????:(:
> 
> 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 ??????????????:(:
> 
- giant snip-

> > > 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.
> 
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