Many RPG programmers would like to be able to port their apps to other

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >> "Many RPG programmers would like to be able to port their apps to other
operating systems." Hans, you are completely wrong about porting
applications.

Hans is a big boy and I'm sure he can speak for himself - however I will
make a couple of comments.

First of all none of you have seen the requests that continue to flow into
the Labs.  I have.  For years one of _the_ most frequent requests has been
"Make RPG available on other platforms".  Hans is not mis-stating anything,
and frankly it is a bit unfair in my opinion to jump all over him for
telling the truth.  For goodness sake we've seen requests on this very forum
for PC and Linux versions of the RPG compiler!! how can you claim that no
one wants to do it?  Maybe few people want to do it to so that they can move
off the box, but that's not the only reason.

Maybe you guys don't want to port your apps - but there are many who do.
Are all of you seriously telling me that if you were a BP you wouldn't like
to be able to sell a version of your app that ran on someone's Unix box?  or
the NT network they already have?

The fact that you think the iSeries is the best dang box in the universe and
that RPG is a great language for business apps doesn't mean that you
wouldn't like to run on other platforms.

Jon Paris
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