Re: Trial for RDi SOA

I agree, it would be great to see IBM come out with an RPG centric way to
produce graphical applications without requiring us to learn any new
languages. Stay tuned for a formal petition initiative I am putting
together that attempts to address this and communicate to the powers that be
at IBM that we want RPG centric GUI.

If I had to choose I would go with PHP as an alternative to RPG CGI, simply
because of all the open source stuff out there and all of the talent that
could be hired, and then I would probably entertain some sort of Java
framework whether it be EGL or Grails or Spring. I guess in the end I would
do my best to keep everything on the iSeries server, which mostly means I
would NOT be modernizing with Microsoft products.

Some of the RPG CGI vendors are making nice progress with their tooling.
Have you checked out the latest 100% RPG "web browser" tool name Valence
from CNXCorp? (http://cnxcorp.com/valence/) Then there's RPGsp from
Profound Logic and RSP from ProData.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com



On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Guillermo Andrades, CPI Software <
gab@xxxxxxx> wrote:

meanwhile customers escaping to visual studio and the arms of microsoft,
all or main of this affliction for IBM not improving RPG with events and
GUI
programming.

poll: .. in one year.... percentage of "i" customers developing with....
- EGL
- Visual Studio, VB6, .NET
- PHP
- CGI RPG variants
- traditional char mode

second poll: after other year,,,,
% of "i" customers with .NET or php that will abandon the plattform.

Best Wishes,
Guillermo