Re: Future of RPG was: Open Access for RPG

Your point of the infrastructure being there is the key I think. (i.e.
the web being more reliable). I think the older generation can play a
HUGE role in aiding IT shops not pursuing wrong parts of technology
because they have "been there, done that". The part the older
generation usually misses out on is knowing the new technology well
enough to be able to say "yes, we will adopt this new technology, but
only this portion of it and only in this fashion".

For example, if I were a .NET programmer that needed to do casual web
services then I would use the built in tooling within VisualStudio,
but if I was doing A LOT of web services that needed sub second
response time for thousands of transactions a minute, then I would
throw out Microsoft's default implementation and write a simple
communicator library that worked on much smaller sets of technology
(i.e. HTTP+non-verbose XML). By the way, I am picking on Microsoft
because I have never seen such over architected web service solutions
in my life. So over architected that in their latest versions of VS
2010, not even hugely popular tools like SOAPUI can communicate with
them (just had this happen two weeks ago).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:36 AM, john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You said "learn from history don't repeat it." But, whatever you want to
call cloud computing, it's still just buying time on someone else's
machine. Looking back in history, it's been done, should we repeat it?

Nokia was the king of mobile telephony, look where it's heading now.Virtual Machines is also nothing new, had that in the 60's.In fact, there is no single technology or tool we didn't had 20/30 years ago.The only thing i can think about is STM (software transactional memory).
It's not about technology and tools.It's about economy.It's now practical, and the infrastructure is there (the web), to really leverage the concept of Saas.The infrastructure and tools needed for this are abundant.I remember paying 150 dollars for Turbo Pascal in the 80's (and it still beats RDi but i digress).
Nowadays you can download Eclipse for free.It's simply amazing what powerful IDE Eclipse is, and it's free (like Netbeans btw).
Just saying, history repeats, but not exactly the same, there is progress.Like going from mainframes to mini to PC's to laptops to phone's to.... Eventually all computing infrastructure will "disappear", i.e. intergrated into our everyday things.But what not disappears is software, and the creation of it.The software market will "explode" (see iPhone).