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When it came out 34 years ago, it was a shockingly modern (though completely TUI-based) development platform for what these days we call CRUD apps. I worked wi
by popularonion 4y ago
When it came out 34 years ago, it was a shockingly modern (though completely TUI-based) development platform for what these days we call CRUD apps.
I worked with AS/400s in the mid-2000s. I don't regret my time with it, but doom was on everyone's lips even back then. The main use case of the system was replaced by J2EE in big corps, and LAMP stacks everywhere else. IBM didn't particularly see this as a problem, since the WebSphere (J2EE) brand was doing fine.
As I recall, IBM's plan for the future of the ecosystem was basically to push training courses in community colleges. Probably they assumed it pointless to compete for the same pool of developers who would bolt to Facebook or Google as soon as they could get an offer.