Re: Re: Resort back to RPG?

> From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@celsinc.com>
> Um, what?  Neither IBM or Microsoft want to use any
> standards than their own.  Remember, Microsoft originally
> took Java out of XP because Sun sued them, and won,
> over Microsoft's non standard (read proprietary)
> modifications of Java.

> And IBM has DB2 and RPG.

> I think it's a matter of neither wanting to play in the other's
> park, although IBM is coming along.

Sorry to repeat your entire message, Jim.  But in this case, every point is
a good one.  The marketing messages and the posturing are fairly
inconsistent with the products of the companies.  Maybe the steam behind
marketing will evaporate.  And maybe Brad's joke about returning to RPG
isn't so laughable.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com