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

I think the issue is: Is it going to continue to deliver new features as the OS and web evolve?

S36 RPG II is "mature". It is widely distributed. It is still supported by IBM. Yet, if someone came to me today and said. "Pete, I want to learn RPG" I wouldn't say "Well, here is the RPG II manual. Go for it!" Likewise with Net.Data. If I am going to take the time and effort to learn a new language, I want it to have some legs.

Just my humble opinion.

Pete


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!

-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>

That was a pretty bold statement about Net.Data being on its way out -

what/who is your source for that?
Observation.

even now - that it is not going anywhere soon.

Not to play on your words, but that is exactly my point. It is going nowhere. When is the next release coming out? What features are going to be in it?
Aaron Bartell http://mowyourlawn.com
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM, wrote:

Aaron
Whoa! Slow down that 520 you are riding!!
That was a pretty bold statement about Net.Data being on its way out - what/who is your source for that? IBM still clearly states on its site for Net.Data on i5/OS - yes, there is a whole site dedicated to this even now - that it is not going anywhere soon.
http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/netdata
Vern

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