Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

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Jon,

if IBM can sell 20.000 licenses (2% of the installed base) at an 
average off 1,500USD I will say that this minor change to the 
compiler is a 30M USD cash cow ;-)

Henrik




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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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