RE: RE: CGIDEV2 -- WEB400

I wrote a small handful of apps in CGIDEV2 so I don't have near the blood
invested as others, but when something (CGIDEV2) has been brought into the
fold by a reliable company (IBM) you would hope that it would last longer
than it has.

The sad thing is that they are doing it all over again with things like EGL.
I bet my next hair cut on EGL being done in 5 years :-)

Aaron Bartell

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:44 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2

Jeeze... what's the big deal. 
They do this kind of thing every few years or so.
Previously there were no alternatives, but today there is at least one good
one and probably other options as well. 
And at the risk of sounding like so many people who have justified CGIDEV2
by saying "You have the source code", dare I say "you have the source code".

I guess I don't see the issue. We, who knew of it, got to use it for a
while. Many of us have now moved on to other tools. Those who have not, I
would render a guess that their code still works today as it did yesterday.
There is really no compelling reason to continue to use a no-charge product
that is not supported. Its purpose is primarily for examples and to show how
things can be accomplished with, in this case, RPG IV. Okay, so learn from
it and move on.
These worries sound like someone who lives by a drive-in theater and is now
complaining that the theater owner is planting trees to block your view of
the movies. It was free for a while, but sooner or later it won't be. That
is how IBM stays in business.  

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:57 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2


> If you add the comments from IBM that Giovanni has published on the
Easy400
> list at Yahoo I don't think you'll see many signs of IBM wanting to
enhance
> the product.

I joined the Easy400 group on Yahoo, and went through and read the messages.
It sounds like it's important that we get the word out to people!

As such, I've contacted some people from the iSeries Network to see if
they're interested in doing a news story on this.
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