This post is based on a question I asked in a long running thread on LinkedIn surrounding this article.
Question for the group: How much should an IT team plan for portability of an application and DB? I bring this up based on a comment in one of the PDFs which is
“A portability issue often overlooked [...]

The longer I work with RPG+DB2+OS400 and compare it to other stacks, the more I love it for the integrated aspects.  There are a number of IBM’ers that recognize the benefit of integrated, but I think those are relatively few compared to those that have jumped on the “Java is integrated” band wagon (which Java [...]

So I have been developing in C#.NET the past couple weeks in preperation for a new software release from Krengel Technology Inc named “DB2 Web Service Enabler” (ping me if you want in on being a beta customer).   Being that I am on a Linux desktop I naturally wanted to develop my C#.NET code using [...]

Ok, so that was a lame attempt at a Spanish statement, but what can you expect from a guy that got a C in that highschool class ;-)
Every once in awhile I run across individuals that are head over heals for Microsoft’s development tools, which aren’t too shabby – now if I could only run [...]

This is the general statement made by Dean in this midrange.com post on the WEB400-L list.  As IBM furthers us down the path of Java it will become a necessity that each AS400 shop adopting IBM’s latest technologies know and understand Java even though IBM states you don’t need to because they supposedly hide all [...]