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December 10, 2008
Rational Gives RPGers a Little Love
IBM has created a new site under its Rational umbrella--a set of sites, really, called Cafés. The sites are designed to foster communities surrounding key Rational technologies. The first was a C/C++ Café Community, followed by EGL earlier this year, and now, RPG.
The RPG Café includes a resource library, discussion forums, blogs, hubs, products, and partner areas of content, and the idea is to give RPG and IBM developers a place to mingle and discuss their favorite language. The site is in active construction, and what's cool is that it's surprisingly clean--it's not packed with marketing messages, and the pages aren't the typical dense IBM.com page. It's focused on RPG.
There are four blogs, for example, right now: RDi Team Blog, which covers topics related to IBM Rational Developer for i; RPG Team Blog, which focuses on topics related to the RPG compiler; RTCi Team Blog, which includes topics related to IBM Rational Team Concert for i; and Extend RPG Applications to the Web with EGL, which features methods of using EGL to extend RPG business logic to the Web.
"The reason we did this was to demonstrate to the IBM i community that Rational really cares about them, and in fact, within IBM, this might be the most nurturing part of the company for the install base. The products we have to offer them are useful only if they are on i5/OS," says Scott Searle, IBM's marketing program director for the enterprise modernization business for Rational.
An agenda exists, however, though it's a soft one rather than the Java-smackin' agenda that IBM hit RPG pros with years ago:
"We really want to show . . . to make it easy to understand how newer techncology can help them leverage their i more and better connect it with distributed environments around it," Searle says.
IBM is working to build out the RPG ecosystem by being inclusive of RPG developers, IBMers, resellers, and ISVs.
"This is a pretty good size investment that Rational is making to show the IBM i install base some love--and they haven't been getting enough from IBM in the recent past, we know that, we recognize that, and we really care about them being happy with their i system and having a healthy way forward with it," Searle adds.
Posted by cmaxcer at December 10, 2008 9:42 AM
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