Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or threewebdevelopment languages/environ...

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But it's going away about as fast as RPG and COBOL have.

That's not comparing apples to apples.  RPG and COBOL had A LOT more time to
become adopted vs. Net.Data.

Let me put it this way (which relates to the OP): Would you recommend
Net.Data as a direction to build new apps on the IBM i for long term
viability?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's a mature product - it works, it has no problems hardly at all. It got
> the ability to handle Java calls when it needed to. It gets PTFs. What's the
> problem here?
>
> Yeah, it's not highly visible - might be its worst problem. But it's going
> away about as fast as RPG and COBOL have. Under the same predicitions.
>
> As to observation - look at the site for ND on i that IBM has. Look at the
> announcements - I just glanced at them and do not have dates and timeframes.
> But stuff IS happening with it. One developer on it? OK - it doesn't need
> more if it's basically working.
>
> OK - back to my vacation!