On 9/17/2013 2:41 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Ed Gould writes:
The 90 day trial program (to me) sounds like a shady car dealer from
the wrong side of town.
The term "test drive" has its etymology in the vehicle buying process, new
and used, as I understand it. "Trial" is not so often applied to that
process. ("Would you like to trial the new Fiat 500?" That's at least much
less common usage of the word trial.)
Simply put, we *DON'T* have such animals [Java programs on z/OS].
Nor will we in the foreseeable future.
There are no possible business justifications that would lead to
implementing Java programs on z/OS? No matter what the benefits, no matter
what the business requirements your users and customers have, as long as
you're around it'll never happen. Am I understanding you correctly, or am I
misinterpreting you?
Relatedly, prophetically, is John Gilmore correct? :-)
But that wasn't actually the point I was trying to make. I'll try again.
Whether *you* have Java programs running on z/OS or not, the fact is that
*all* z/OS customers running Java programs on z/OS have no particular
issues creating, testing, deploying, and managing their applications with
the PDSE prerequisite. And that's been going on for many years. COBOL and
Java are programming languages, both excellent. What makes COBOL so
different in this respect? Why are all the z/OS customers running Java
programs getting their jobs done with PDSEs? What makes them different and
special? What's the secret to their successes, and why wouldn't their PDSE
experiences apply equally to COBOL?
Simple. With Java, we didn't have 40 years and thousands (millions?) of
libraries to convert. That's what makes COBOL different, the conversion
effort. Java had no code base to convert, so we could start new.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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