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Joe Pluta skrev den 29-01-2008 20:06:
particular issue). But IBM needs to do this; since we seem not able or
willing to make the move ourselves (at least not any more quickly than
glaciers), for the platform to move forward, they have to incent people
to move with it.
Being a newcomer to this world I have wondered why this is so.
I understand that there is a migration towards ILE, where all languages
can be linked together in a single program if so desired, but I do not
understand why this implies that everybody should do so.
If you have something which have run well for literally decades then why
change it? And if you have something which have run well for decades
but you would like to do a small bugfix but cannot do so since the
compiler is no longer available?
I understand that this is basically what has happened to the Visual Age
RPG folks.
As you may know I mostly do Java, and one of the most important things
that happened in that area was when it was made available under the
GPL. Why?
Because you are now guaranteed that regardless what happens to the
parent company (like being bought by Microsoft, after which anything
with Java is revoked) you still have the platform available that you
depend upon.
I believe that the advantage of the AS/400 - namely being robust and
reliable - is also a problem for IBM. How do you sell new stuff when
the old stuff works so well?
æ--
Thorbjørn
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