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

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

However, IBM is in the same position as apple.
1) Why port it to another platform. We would loose out on money.
2) It would become less stable. IBM and Apple both maintain strict control
over their respective platforms. M$ cannot, they can only set standards that
the manufacturer should follow. Thus your hardware drivers can be unstable.
There are actually many factors that cause OS instability. The main
difference between M$ and Apple or IBM is that IBM and Apple have taken the
care of not having the entire system crash if a driver crashes.


-----Original Message-----
From: bill.reger@convergys.com [mailto:bill.reger@convergys.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:58 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Many RPG programmers would like to be able to port their
apps to other



>> I don't get it Brad, porting OS/400 to Linux/Windows?

Bob,

I'm not Brad but I think maybe I get it.

I always wondered why someone at IBM didn't come up with a version of
OS/400 that would run on a PC and/or server.  Talk about a stable
environment.  And if IBM would have figured out how to give OS/400 a GUI
look-and -feel (a "real" one, not simply an add-on), my PC would be in
PC-heaven.  It always seems crippled and unstable by the reality that I
have to run Windows on it.

If a PC could run OS/400 and have a true GUI, I believe people would flock
to it.  But since IBM hasn't done it yet, maybe I'll never "get it" (in the
ownership sense, not the understanding sense).

Bill


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