IBM getting it right!

Hi Guys,

I went to the Interaction symposium at Surfers Paradise (QLD, Australia) last week and wished I'd gone to one of those gigs sooner!

The presentations the IBMers put on were just great. I sat through every Rational Development presentation they had and talked to the guys from IBM and I think we now have a great roadmap for moving our whole shop (20+ developers) over to RDi (RPG developers) and RDi-SOA for Java (RPG, java and jsp developers). We will start training them on WDSCi 7.0 while still at 5.4 to get everybody over the transition shock. :-)

I think the original launch of RDi got everybody confused (including many IBMers) but I guess it is difficult to know what to keep and what to lose when everything is bundled and shipped free. IBM were on a loser there from the start. But credit to them, they reacted quickly and got it right. It is also difficult to justify complaining about IBM's development roadmap if you haven't talked to IBM. Now I have I'm very happy with it.

Joe, you was right about RDi moving to a newer version of eclipse too. It was confirmed that the next release of RDi (out in October I believe) will be based on eclipse 3.3. So that's all great!

Anyway, just wanted to post a 'I'm happy with IBM' message, and that's not even going into the changes to RPG (possibly overloaded procedure names, and maybe ability to write/read xml on EXFMT) on the way or the excellent work they have done with the SQL SQE optimizer (that's for another list I'm sure).

Cheers

Larry Ducie

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