RE: RE: CGIDEV2

I know that Mel works for Jim and has for months.
Could that be what's going on? 

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:36 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2



OK, this may have been asked before, but what's the difference between 
CGIDEV2 and the Tools that Jim Sloan now sells?

I'm at a loss to see what the differences are here....

Don in DC

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Bryan Dietz wrote:

> Here it the text of an email that expect most will recieve.  Maybe it will
> help the article.
>
> <email>
> Easy400 CGIDEV2 - Your action is required
>
> Dear (name),
> if you, as as subscriber of the IBM Easy400 site www-922.ibm.com ever used
> CGIDEV2, you know for sure that this free software is the best gem ever
> distributed by IBM to encourage RPG programmers in developing iSeries WEB
> sites at no learning cost and with minimum hardware requirements.
>
> CGIDEV was developed by Mel Rothman in 1996, enhanced by him to CGIDEV2 in
> 1999 when he was working for the IBM Custom Technology Center in IBM
> Rochester, MN.
> I discovered CGIDEV in 1997, rated it as a pure diamond, and established
an
> IBM site, named Easy400, intended to inform the public about the value of
> the tool, through demonstrations, tutorials, and examples.
>
> Once CGIDEV2 was available, I convinced IBM Rochester CTC management to
let
> me distribute it at no charge through my site.
> Mel Rothman, though he retired a couple of years ago, continued to provide
> support, fiexes and enhancements, which I cared to be made available
> through the IBM Easy400 site.
> The success of this piece of software, CGIDEV2, has been extremely high.
> More than 30 articles, most in english language and in italian have been
> published in the last five years. Some were stressing its easy-of-use and
> performance, other were providing fine professional guides.
>
> As to the number of iSeries WEB sites implemented through CGIDEV2, I have
> no precise figure, though my educated guess - considering that the site
has
> currently exceeded 17 thousand subscribers from 126 countries, that a
> number of developers have provided fine testimonials, and occasional news
> have reached me by e-mail - is that at least 3 thousand iSeries (AS/400)
> WEB sites have ben established through CGIDEV2.
>
> Let us now come to the sad part of the story.
> One month ago it was my turn to retire.
>
> Knowing that IBM would not let me any longer maintain the IBM Easy400
site,
> I have established my own new Easy400 site www.easy400.net where I plan to
> provide futher software deliverables at no charge.
>
> I did then ask the owner of CGIDEV2, the IBM CTC Rochester, to let me
> redistribute CGIDEV2 from my site, in order to provide future maintenance
> and enhancements. After consulting with the IBM lawyer, the answer was
> negative, the rationale being that IBM would not give away its code, even
> when - as the case is - no IBM resources have been made available for
> supporting it any further.
>
> I believe that such position is totally irrespective of the iSeries and
> AS/400 customers needs all over the world. I know a large number of
parties
> that develop WEB applications for small customer who cannot afford the
huge
> hardware requirements needed to run WebSphere with a reasonable response
> time. These parties would have rather migrated to Microsoft, but their
> decisions were stopped by CGIDEV2 availability and support.
>
> So what?
>
> If you are an active CGIDEV2 developer, the time has come for you to stand
> up and tell IBM that CGIDEV2 deserves better attention than paid from IBM
> so far and must become Open Source. In this way Mel Rothman may continue
> ehnacing the code and have it distributed through my new non-IBM Easy400
> site.
> What should you do.
>
> Write a short letter telling the advantages CGIDEV2 has given to you, and
> asking for its classification as Open Source.
>
> Address it to the IBM World Wide iSeries Marketing Vicepresident Peter
> Bingaman, bingaman@xxxxxxxxxx
> Copy it to the Manager of the IBM Rochester CTC Center, Richard Ross,
> rbross@xxxxxxxxxx
> Do not forget to add a blank copy for me, Giovanni B. Perotti,
> gb_perotti@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> If a few hundred letters hit the target in the next two days, IBM will
have
> material for reconsidering its position.
>
> Dear (name), your active contribution for defending the iSeries community
> is required NOW!
> Thanks indeed,
> Giovanni B. Perotti,
> the man who made CGIDEV2 run around the word
> gb_perotti@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> </email>
> ----------------------------
> Bryan Dietz
>
> Aktion Associates
>
> web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/19/2005 04:56:53 PM:
>
>>
>>> If you add the comments from IBM that Giovanni has published on the
> Easy400
>>> list at Yahoo I don't think you'll see many signs of IBM wanting to
> enhance
>>> the product.
>>
>> I joined the Easy400 group on Yahoo, and went through and read the
>> messages. It sounds like it's important that we get the word out to
>> people!
>>
>> As such, I've contacted some people from the iSeries Network to see if
>> they're interested in doing a news story on this.
>> --
>
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