Re: why rpg and not cobol -- RPG400-L

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, at 16:30:50, "Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I sense a bit of hostility in your tone towards IBM's relationship with Rochester :).

Hostility? Truthsaying perhaps. The mainframers who traditionally ran IBM corporate (and certainly software group) actively worked against Rochester and for all I know still do.

But from an outsider's perspective, it is mind-boggling why IBM didn't shut down proprietary OS's ages ago. So one could argue that IBM has stuck with Rochester thru thick and thin when all other H/W and S/W companies had abandoned the proprietary approach decades ago.
Even though you disagree with my argument, surely you must agree that if Iseries only ran popular languages such as C and Java, it would be long gone???

No - I don't agree. If this were true then Larry Ellison would not have spent billions acquiring Sun and attempting to build a fully integrated server just like the IBM i. Microsoft would not have spent billions trying to do the same thing. It is the integration that is the difference.

And don't forget COBOL when you talk about "popular" languages - it has a huge presence in the Unix world.

Jon Paris

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