The Four Hundred: Open Source RPG Apps: The 'Bright Future' That Didn't Happen

"Flashback to 2002. Open source software is hot. It's the future. It's what everyone is writing and talking about. Projects and their related Web sites are popping up all over. And it wasn't just the Linux and PC folks doing the talking either. There were all kinds of open source projects for systems and application software--tens of thousands of projects, many of which called SourceForge home.

"With apologies to our own Alex Woodie (and with hope that he won't retaliate by digging up some of my headlines four years hence), IT Jungle published an article entitled Open Source is Alive and Well in OS/400 Land. In the first paragraph, Woodie said that, 'Despite its proprietary nature and reclusive status, the iSeries has a bright future when it comes to open-source application development.' While he immediately acknowledges that much of this development focuses on Linux and PASE, the OS/400 AIX runtime environment, he goes on to note the open source application development taking place in RPG as well as Java and C..."

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