Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

What do you mean? IBM will make literally thousands and thousands of dollars
for this licpgm. Probably enough for an executive washroom upgrade.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think IBM sees RPG as a sinking ship full of gold, and their only
goal is
to get as much gold off the ship before it finally goes under.
RPGOA is a
crude plug to slow the sinking so they have more time to get to the
gold.

If you had said the IBM i I wouldn't have quibbled but ... RPG ?

On the _top_ level the cost of an OA run time is $5,000. At the bottom
end (where 99% of the customers will be) it is $500 or $1,000. Given
that this is a per server (not user or partition) license how on earth
can you can peg this as a cash grab?

I would have preferred it to be free, but that was Rational's decision.

But cash grab? - let's be real.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


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