Re: HP Stimulus Package

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, <Ron-Zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's incredible that anyone would put such a boldfaced lie in their
> marketing materials!
>
> IBM will have you upgrade your AS/400 to the newly created Power Systems
> family, the merged System p and System i server lines, and totally rewrite
> your applications with their middleware product, WebSphere, which many
> developers find complex and expensive.

how is it a lie?  RPG has not been enhanced to include Java features
like managed code and classes ( so RPG code cant be modernized ). And
green screen apps take a lot of work to convert to the web. IBM is
actively pushing PHP, which requires a rewrite of your RPG apps.   HP
is saying you can use their INFINITE software product to convert your
RPG code to something that uses the Oracle database in place of DB2
and the browser instead of client access.