Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

["Lance Gillespie" <lgillespie@xxxxxxxx>]

from: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 1.   You have to use the right tool for the right job
> 2.   There is no one tool you can use for every job

> 1. 85% of the applications my customers want are either A. Simple HTML 
> CRUD applications used on an intranet for data maintenance or B. Simple 
> web "self service" applications where data can be retrieved and 
> updated.

> 2.   Another 10% are what I would call robust CRUD applications.  Lots 
> of validity checking.

> 3.   The remaining 5% are what I would call "enterprise applications".  
> In our case it will be payroll processing, student scheduling, month end 
> closing, that kind of stuff.

+1 for the 'tools for the jobs' comment.  We have an 85/10/5 distribution
over the simple/robust/enterprise schema as well - but the 85 and 5 are
reversed from yours.  Nearly everything is at the enterprise level and that
is why we stick with iSeries RPG.  For the 5% 'keep track of my paper clips'
jobs, it is more than we need, but why break out and maintain a whole
infrastructure for such a small percentage.

Obviously, YYMV