Re: Future of RPG

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And the combination of that OS (Android) with Google Apps Premier (for those
businesses that have gone that route) is absolutely wonderful.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Blake said: The most important thing is to write modular code as is
> stressed over and
> over again by people on this list. Separate concerns by breaking your data
> access logic and business rules into RPG service programs or what have
> you. If architected properly, you can then re-use that logic any number of
> ways, whether it be for a 5250, browser or fat-client application. I'm not
> saying anything a lot of people on this list don't already know (and
> better than myself), but maybe it will provide a starting point.
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>
>
> In the end you summed it up right on the money.  We all have had
> different experiences with successes and failures of the various
> technologies.  For those that DO plan on testing the waters with
> non-IBMi technologies, then the best insurance policy is to build for
> the "just in case it doesn't work out" scenarios, and that is building
> modular and building for change in the landscape.
>
> I would put money on Google coming out with their own UI technology in
> the next couple years that will put the others to shame (i.e.
> Silverlight, Flex/Flash, JavaFX, etc).  Google has the advantage of
> watching on the side lines the current fiascos going on and the
> advantage of a ginormous check book to write checks with when the time
> is right.  Look how short of a time it took them to become a contender
> in the mobile phone OS market?  Two, maybe three years?
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
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