Maurice,
I wasn't following you full discourse with Aaron, but here's my two cents.
There's no need to apologize for mentioning .Net as a valid development option for iSeries in this forum.
Quite honestly learning .Net is a great career path choice for an RPG developer whether they stick with iSeries or not.
For good or bad I had one student attend an all day COMMON lab on .Net a few years back and he went out and got himself a better paying job, although sadly it wasn't with an iSeries shop.
Once fluent in .Net they have expanded their career path so they can communicate and work with any system on the planet.
Showing the 30-40 something CIO/CTO that the iSeries can be easily front-ended by .Net is a great way to get past some of the political hurdles when the CIO/CTO is convinced the iSeries should go away.
Ultimately it comes down to where each person/company feels most comfortable, but RPG, PHP, JSP, ASP.Net, Ruby, etc could all be argued as great technologies for web development depending on who's making the argument.
I use them all except for Ruby :-)
From there it comes down to religious differences :-)
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date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:53:55 -0000
from: "Maurice O'Prey" <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Why the IBM i *might* not be a good web server
Hi Aaron
One final post from me on this, and it is not meant to be the last word, simply to explain my position and opinion more clearly.
First any assertion or assumption that I 'dislike' the i or any part of it is an error, and I apologise if my words have inferred that in any way. As I have stated I have worked with the AS/400, iSeries, i for a long time (like many others) and will continue to do so ( i am an avid supporter of IBM and the i platform, and as I said own two machines myself).
I have also chosen some years ago to develop our web applications using .NET, my preference that is all. Again I am not going to say (A) is better than (B) or vice versa it just fits for me and the business solution we provide. Since the i does not run .NET natively I develop my web apps on a windows server (not unnaturally) and in my case this is an IBM xSeries.
The two machines talk nicely to each other through the IBM data provider and it offers me great flexibility to develop either an iSeries web app, a SQL Server Web App or one that talks to any other database. Accepted you can also do this with PHP or practically any other language and the end result will most likely be the same.
So why do I mention .NET in this group?, well granted it seems silly of me since there is a whole list for that subject, but I do feel that a slight segregation exists. .NET is web enabling the 400, I and many other people use it for that, so why can we not discuss it in this list without entering the 'Battle between Platforms' debate?
I expect we all enjoy our jobs as we are working with relatively new technologies, so why can't we get on as a single unit with a single direction (just 2 slightly different paths for getting there)?
I'll be more careful about jumping in non .NET threads in future, you were right to pull me up on that, maybe a softer acceptance of other options by you might help also.
Kind Regards
Maurice O'Prey
midrange.com
