Re: EGL: Integration or Migration?

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > "For your company, would it be more important that IBM focus on 
> > providing tools that allow EGL to act as a thin interface to your 
> > existing ILE, or are you more interested in using EGL to write brand new platform-independent applications?"
> >
> >     
>
> Joe,
>
> Sorry, it's taken me a while to get back to this one.  We're definitely 
> more inclined to Integration.  We want to interface to existing IBM i 
> applications.  We may add some new databases and then put an EGL front-end 
> on them, but we're definitely leaning to using ILE back-end logic--COBOL 
> or RPG.
>   
And that's what most i shops I talk to are saying.  That's why EGL is 
such a great fit.  I did my little presentation at RSDC yesterday, and 
you should have seen the eyes in the audience.  The way EGL separates 
user interface and business logic, the simple procedural syntax, the way 
it hides all the complexity of thin and rich client web interfaces, and 
the way it interfaces so seamlessly with RPG - all of these make it the 
simplest way to integrate your existing ILE business logic with all the 
latest technologies.

Joe