Re:iSeries Production Database

It is shocking to note that a lot of big shops use AS400 and RPG still. 650,000 units are in use IBM claims. It just boggles me why. Keeping legacy code alive perhaps since it's too expensive to migrate.

As for languages, Java is platform independent too. Actually, every language except VB is platform independent.

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, dgoulet_at_vicr.com wrote:
> RPG, AS400??? Didn't they die along with Cobol and Vax/VMS?
>
> Seriously the choice of platform I believe is more of a business decision than
> anything given the applications and associated software that one wants to run
> thereon. Then the use of a language is more predicated on what is available,
> usable, and most cost effective for the platform. Probably why I happen to like
> C. It's almost completely platform and OS independent.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
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> Subject: iSeries Production Database
> Author: Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
> Date: 10/14/2002 8:58 PM
>
> Hello,
>
> How many people here have RPG - AS400 - iSeries in their shops? Curious
> question: What makes your shop use the IBM iSeries?
>
> Do you use RPG or SQL for your database?
>
> Thank you.
>
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