Re: What would you do without RPG?

You know, I wonder more and more what IBM's long term strategy with the AS400/I really is. It is like the mainframe- long lived and highly profitable, but IBM seems to continually minimize it.

Underneath the covers the machine is already pretty much virtualized anyway. I am not sure but what IBM will, sooner or later, just port it to a Power virtual machine (or more likely, an Intel VM) and be done with it.

Such a move would guarantee RPG a long, healthy, and profitable future. Without all the expense needed for hardware support. As well as increase the customer base without affecting other divisions adversely. Also would make software support and development much easier and less costly, for IBM.

Perhaps, rather than abandonment, such a move is in the nit too distant future. :)


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On Jul 19, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:06:07 -0600, Nathan Andelin
<nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If IBM were to abandon support for RPG, would you abandon IBM i? Does RPG
mean that much to you?

It would not be at all my decision to make.

Long range the corporation is planning to move most of our
applications from various RPG-based packages running on IBM i on Power
to SAP running on AIX on Power.

So my guess is that if IBM were to announce the discontinuance of RPG,
that process would be accelerated.

Ken
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