RPG usage today

[lv3ab]

How widely is RPG used today? Would you agree that it is still used mostly for business applications?

 

[PeteJohnston]

I think it would probably be 99.99% business applications, although I did get an e-mail last week from an agency looking for someone with RPG (Role-playing games ? ) experience! :-D

Someone on one of these forums quoted 80% of Fortune 500 companies using RPG somewhere in the background. This seems a lot, but I did read something a few months ago in a Freelance Informer magazine stating that 40% of the world's code was written in RPG. The article was written by a Windows programmer, so he probably wouldn't be exaggerating.

I know AS400 doesn't handle sexy graphics too well, although it is getting better, but as a stable business platform nothing I have worked on (SQL Server, VB, MS Access) comes close. PeteJ
(Contract Code-monkey)

It's amazing how many ways there are to skin a cat
(apologies to the veggies)

 

[onpnt]

That was me that quoted the 80% which was actually inacurate. it's 85%
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IBM iSeries and AS/400 servers are key business systems in 95% of the Fortune 100 and 85% of the Fortune 500.
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references

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/education/pie/funfacts.html

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Another fun fact and realization on why the major companies in the world run these machines. Efficiency! The 400 are without a doubt the most stable and efficient way to run a business. From the way data is accessed to the security of the system. If you had a machine that could do things in half the time as the next, would you go to the slower machine for shear looks of a GUI? Not when billions are on the line. Besides the fact the iseries now has middle ware to run a &quot;pretty&quot; GUI for all the illiterate users out there.
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[iSeriesCodePoet]

... and many applications are being brought to the web anyway. iSeriesCodePoet
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[wtfay]

I have been using VARPG which is now included on the i-series. I have shown people the GUI results and they have been very impressed. I feel it is important to develop in a client/server manner. Having coded GOB for many years and now doing GUI, the GUI solves a lot of problems and it is quicker to develop in GUI than GOB (and more fun). I have worked on Java and Unix platforms also. I-series, RPG and VAPRG are best for business, cost effective and does everything you want. The VARPG is only a syntax, it compiles into a windows executable.