Re: Helas another nail in the RPG coffin

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Perhaps you can give more info on the type of industry you are in. In my
experience, a SQL server based solution is more expensive overall.
There are pros and cons. With SQL server you can offshore work cheaper but
you have to be carefull on that.
The AS/400 engine performs better than SQL server imo. There are really many
variables it would be interesting to know more about your installation,.
Having worked in both worlds, I am not committed to either one.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:25 AM, PAPWORTH Paul <Paul.PAPWORTH@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> We are one of this countries larger AS400 installations. I heard
> yesterday that we are going to migrate to Intel technology. Why ? RPG ?
> This is a problem for some of our prospects who would prefer Java based
> solutions but the main reason is the AS400 which is too expensive thus
> rendering us less competitive. The migration will take some time , but
> all new stuff on theAS400 is now developed in Java so as to ease the
> migration burden later on.
>
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