Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean? IBM will make literally thousands and thousands of dollars
for this licpgm. Probably enough for an executive washroom upgrade.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I think IBM sees RPG as a sinking ship full of gold, and their only
> > goal is
> > to get as much gold off the ship before it finally goes under.
> > RPGOA is a
> > crude plug to slow the sinking so they have more time to get to the
> > gold.
>
>
> If you had said the IBM i I wouldn't have quibbled but ... RPG ?
>
> On the _top_ level the cost of an OA run time is $5,000. At the bottom
> end (where 99% of the customers will be) it is $500 or $1,000. Given
> that this is a per server (not user or partition) license how on earth
> can you can peg this as a cash grab?
>
> I would have preferred it to be free, but that was Rational's decision.
>
> But cash grab? - let's be real.
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
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