I know this issue will come up at one of my locations, so to get a head start...
Application development on Linux/390.... The CIO is all ga ga over Linux. And the mainframe is the first box that Linux will be installed on. He thinks Linux is the best thing since sliced bread and I have trouble reigning him in to reality. Anyway, one of the projects he wants on Linux/390 is Linux application development. What this means, I don't know. Except that some Linux application developers need a platform to work on. Perhaps some of these applications will stay on the mainframe, perhaps the development work will stay on the mainframe. Don't know what will happen, when other Linux boxes are proposed or tried to be justified. Anyway, for any shops that do development of Linux applications (you know, the in house stuff, not to be sold or distributed), what tools do you need? What are the preferred tools? Are these tools available for Linux/390? What is the cost of these tools? I would like to hear about both Websphere stuff (some applications may be headed that way) and non-Websphere stuff (I assume there are other, non Websphere applications). Sure, there may be some web hosting applications. But I assume that there are other types of applications. Right? Or perhaps this stuff I don't have to worry about. It could be that the application developers know what they want and all of it is available for Linux/390....True or false? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
