Re[2]:iSeries Production Database

One should take the numbers the sales droids preach with a shovel full of salt. I remember MicroSlop claiming that they had more than a million copies of SQL*Server in use not too many years ago. Seems that what they were counting is the number of installs, which came with NT 3.51 advanced server whether you wanted it or not. It was therefore an overly inflated number that was meaningless. It would be like them calling Outlook the only used mail package on the Windows platform just because they bundle it in. In IBM's case how many of these units have been retired to the third party market & are consequently no longer in use or have been migrated to another OS?? Just because someone bought it does not mean they are using it.

Dick Goulet

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Author: Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
Date:       10/15/2002 6:28 AM

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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