Re: the advantages of garbage collection

Take this next statement with a grain of salt, but you are justifying your
position based on a companies poor infrastructure decisions. If a company
is needing to combine all of those technologies for the majority of their
core business processes then they truly have had a hard time deciding what
their longterm direction is as an IT department.

Simple problems have simple solutions. complex problems.... :)

I got a catchy phrase for ya in return :-)

Sometimes we create our own complexities based on not understanding, nor
knowing how to leverage, simplicity.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

With RPG and data access I simply go
back to the well (i.e. DB2) if I need more water

Yes, but you make the assumption that there is only one well. (And that
it hasn't changed state since you went there last). What if the "well"
includes data from a screen, or SQLServer, or Oracle, or DB2 on
Mainframe, or Web Services, or XML, or IFS, or ...

Simple problems have simple solutions. complex problems.... :)

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Tech Software
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WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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