Re: Apache and .Net

["Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,
 
It's interesting you mention AD/Cycle and Joe CSP.   Wow, what a flashback to days when I used to sell/consult on AD/Cycle and do some work in CSP.  Interesting to see EGL comes from that background.   
 
Out of all that there were some very good modeling tools (KnowledgeWare, BACHMAN, etc.) and I haven't seen anything as good as them since.   X-Analysis has a part of the space the older tools played in but is still not as complete if you want to go from Conceptual Modeling, through Logical and Physical, to, at least, database/table generation code.   I do, however, like and use X-Analysis all the time.
 
Dave

> > > Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 8/11/2008 08:07 >>>

On 11-Aug-08, at 10:44 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> [Jon] EGL is a strategic product for IBM.

I had high hopes for EGL - this is depressing news.  With the possible  
exception of WebSphere, pretty much everything originated within IBM  
that was flagged as "strategic" ended up in the bit-bucket of time.   
SAA, AD/Cycle, OS/2, and on.

As I told the Rational folks in Raleigh - whatever you do, don't allow  
the powers-that-be make EGL strategic.  Oh well - let's hope things  
are different this time.

Jon Paris

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