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

Yeah Scott - with Matt's post and IBM's statement on the ND site, I'm seeing that the future for Net.Data is not so rosy.

Yet IBM is still promoting it - even saying if you want expert Net.Data help, they have it - Custom Technology Center - is that the name? Of course, we know how long some of these things can last.

So I've retrenched a bit - quite a bit, perhaps - on using this technology - kind of a shame, IMHO, cuz it really does work well, in my experience, albeit limited it is.

Vern

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From: Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Vern,

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?

The problem is market traction. Net.Data has never had much traction
in the market. Originally, it was cross-platform, but nobody used it
except on i -- so it was phased out. Even on i the number of
developers interested in it are a tiny percentage of the industry.

So that's the problem -- traction -- Net.Data has very little traction.
Very little adoption. You can't say that about RPG or Cobol. Cobol
has refused to die because there's so much software written in it. RPG
is still where 70% of i developement is done.. so while RPG is small
potatoes in the larger industry, it's "the king" in the System i space.

Net.Data is neither.

So why would someone want to use Net.Data? What advantage does it have
over anything else out there? (Is "better integration with REXX" really
a valid reason?)
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