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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Technology is making people do crazy things these days like jump from one
platform to another simply because the UI is more natively graphical (i.e.
AS400 to Windows). I believe that the same crazyness could happen in
reverse and get people back onto the AS400 IF we had a solid programming
stack that included a graphical client.

I think the wish list has to be divided into two. One list contains
what only IBM, the owner of the closed source OS, can do. The 2nd is
what Zend and other software providers can do. Only IBM can expand the
10 char object name limit or provide access to ILE procedure
invocation process ( so that signature violations could be safely
avoided at runtime, procedure calls could be marshalled across the
network, etc ). A 3rd party can write a 5250 client, but only IBM can
write the server side that the RPG talks to when it reads and writes
to a display file. Of course, if the same IBM that profits so well
from open source Linux would give back an open source IBM i ...

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