Re: Impressions of EGL - Part Duex

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Niels Liisberg skrev  den 26-05-2008 20:42:
> Hi Thorbjørn;
>
> I totally agree with you. But the issue here is that OPM (and ILE for that
> matter) is as vendor locked in as it can be ... it is 100% IBM / system i. 
>
> Many of our customers have the same concerns as you. But in the end of the
> day they by into our product because they need the functionality and can not
> afford steep learning curves and/or rewrite all the stuff to JAVA, PHP,
> Groovy .. or what ever the hype of tomorrow is ... 
>
> Customers seams to have an "Add water - and I have a party" kind attitude
> and want the job done ASAP because of the fast transitions in the IT-world
> of today. 
>
> But I follow you: In a perfect world every thing is cross platform / cross
> vendor / cross environment - and all tooling is open-source and having a
> huge community. Until then we just have to be more pragmatic from the
> application lifecycle perspective and use the tools available on the market
> - and make your COBOL fly yet once again until the future arrives :) 
>   
I fully understand your point of view, and also recognize that "this is 
the simplest way to get from here to there now" is quite a pragmatic 
approach to many things.

I also believe that telling people that the world does not HAVE to be 
like "just use the best tool, since it will be unsupported anyway in 5 
years", and perhaps things might change someday given enough people 
asking for it.  That is at least what I gather from what Joe Pluta says 
about the new Rational Developer - that those who decide can be reached.

Now that I have you - have you managed to build an industrial strength 
web server in RPG or does IceBreak use Apache or something else for that?