I would suspect of any consultant who claims that a language is "dead". Ask him what he thinks about COBOL. Seems it is alive and well. My healthcare application is 100% AS400 OPM Cobol. The s/w company is rebuilding the application in JAVA so to sell it to more companies who do not want to reinvest in hardware. MONEY, ALWAYS MONEY.
Funny thing, just a few weeks ago, our life insurance application developer emailed me a snippet of code from our actuary firm for some bizarre calculation that was being done. I was curious of the code language so I called the actuary and was told the language is Windows based FORTRAN! I almost dropped the phone.
Since everything comes down to long term cost, are you better served with a replacement ERP system that requires a team of people to "serve" it (mainframe and windows) or a "self serve" system......
Bentley Pearson
Vice President - Information Services
Southland National Insurance Corporation
1812 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, Al
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205 345 7410
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam West
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:14 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Is RPG 'DEAD"
We have been searching for a new ERP package. In additon to looking at RPG Iseries based, we hired a consultant to assist in this endeavour. He has made a statement that RPG is Dead, that he claims, IBM guys told him so.
I am interested in opinions and links to the contrary on this,
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