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David Gibbs wrote:
The future is multi-lingual, multi-tiered, multi-interface, multi-platform,
and the fastest way to get there is EGL.
What an incredibly expensive way to do business.
This is pretty much my biggest gripe about EGL ... the cost.
What cost? Compared to what? Green screen development?
I don't understand this particular argument. Please explain what you
envision as the cost structure of an EGL/RPG application as opposed to
.. well, anything really.
I see it this way: most of the time is spent writing RPG business
logic. That cost, for any architecture, is constant. So the only cost
differences are in development and deployment of the user interface.
With EGL, you need basically one person writing the UI. That's one seat
of RDi-SIOA, which is either an extra $1300 one time cost, and $260 a
year. Or in the case of the newly announced Power 520 Express machines,
ZERO. Even if you need more UI developers, then you have a pretty big
shop and the incremental cost of $260 a designer per year isn't that
expensive.
Deployment means running in WebSphere, which is also free. You might
need an extra GB of memory. Add $500, or whatever ridiculous number IBM
is charging these days (a number which continues to drop, BTW). And
installing and running in WebSphere is simply exporting and installing
an EAR file; it's not rocket science.
Zero footprint on workstations and external clients.
Compare this to... what? WebFacing costs as much to deploy, is harder
to use, and looks like crap (sorry WebFacing folks - you know my
position on this). PHP is a whole new set of software to learn, install
and eventually pay for (remember, PHP is *not* free, it's only free "for
now"). You know the embedded costs of a .NET solution. RPG-CGI becomes
expensive pretty quickly if you use something like Dreamweaver.
Even green screen is not free. Try maintaining Client Access
installations in Japan - I have a client who can tell you about those
nightmares firsthand. And of course, no GUI.
I guess I'm just a little confused... what am I missing here?
Joe
midrange.com
