Re: IBM Bets PHP Is Open Source's Next Big Thing

That's where are opinions differ.  On another platform I
may choose PHP only because I don't have something like RPG
that is so native to the machine.  DB Access you mention,
and to me, that's important.

PHP can get real messy real quick...  just like Net.Data.

Of course, when I say I prefer RPG with the iSeries, it's
with a good toolkit like CGIDEV2 or eRPG SDK. 

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:07:00 -0600
 "Bartell, Aaron L." <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have done both PHP and RPG and would say that PHP is
> much easier to
> program and caters much more towards web development (it
> was built for
> it and is still being modified to meet that need). Of
> course RPG still
> has some things on PHP because of it's DB access, but
> other than that
> there isn't much else it has on PHP.
> 
> IMO they should have gone with PHP from the get go rather
> than pursue
> net.data.  Going this route kinda says a lot with how
> much IBM has been
> teaching it's customers about Java.  With the advent of
> JSF, Java web
> development is much easier and is a better direction to
> go if you are
> developing serious web apps for your company. Note that I
> am still not
> sold on WAS and rather use Tomcat, probably  mostly
> because WAS doesn't
> give me anything extra that Tomcat doesn't offer (ie I
> don't use EJB's)
> 
> Aaron Bartell
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Big Thing
> 
> *shudder*
> 
> Anything to get folks away from RPG I guess.  :)  But why
> PHP over Perl
> I quander...  And what ever happened to net.data?
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:27:41 -0600
>  "Bartell, Aaron L." <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
>
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60403410
> > 
> > 
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