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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