RE: CGIDEV2

[Mike Skvarenina <mskvarenina@xxxxxxx>]

This doesn't make sense to me.  I've built an entire large scale application
around CGIDEV2 and it's that service program and their updates that keeps my
company on the iSeries.  To that end we're about to purchase both a new 550
and a new 520.  If CGIDEV2 wasn't around (and the subsequent derivatives by
Bob Cozzi and Brad Stone, we would have been off the iSeries year ago.

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 11:40 PM
To: web400
Subject: [WEB400] CGIDEV2

Just in case you haven't seen the news yet.  IBM have (partially) pulled the
plug on the Easy400 web site - home of CGIDEV2.

Giovanni is continuing the tutorials, and distribution of all the other
utilities from his new site (www.easy400.net) but IBM have apparently
refused to allow him to distribute CGIDEV2.  Goodness knows why.  The
license statement on the web site clearly says you can distribute derivative
works but ... they say no.

On IBM's own site the download is still available, but it is clearly marked
as "frozen".

Not a good day for the future of the iSeries.  If some idiot at IBM thinks
this will make scores of people rush to WebSphere - well boy are they in for
a shock!  Just sit back now and wait for ASNA's advertisements pointing out
to people that IBM is obviously abandoning RPGers.

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com
www.RPGWorld.com