Re: AS/400 vs. NT

["Luther Ananda Miller" <luther.miller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

AS/400 vs NT is not necessarily a be a battle of user interfaces features. We have been working with AS/400 solutions using Visual Basic as a front end for years, using the AS/400 for a stable database server which also runs intense processing of data. We are now expanding this to include Java GUI clients and expanding our use of the server (AS/400) to implement java as well as ebusiness. Why? We believe the AS/400 is more reliable, offers more scalability, and less administration than NT and flavors of Unix.

 

Luther

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From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu <boothm@earth.goddard.edu>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, 28 October 1999 6:03
Subject: Re: AS/400 vs. NT

Good point.  So the lesson is:  our prices are too low by a factor of 10?  

Lets assume that posit for a moment, which basically says that by taking away the restraint of budget, what could we offer in competition to the fat client solution?  I think that is the real question here: fat client vs. text-based data stream.

I wonder how we can make the green screen applications intuitive, easy to use, pleasing to look at, and easily supported?  

The idea of an HTML and 5250 combining into a snazzy interface makes a lot of sense but man, it needs a lot of additional function to be accepted.

What does the AS/400 solution offer that NT doesn't?  We know that reliability is a non-issue -  too many NT servers are running way to well and way to long for us to throw up the reliabilty smoke screen anymore, and the AS/400 itself is way to complicated for most shops today.  

So, what is there to offer?  

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Subject:        Re: AS/400 vs. NT

In our current corporate culture, the warriors no longer compare battle
scares, they compare budgets.

Like medals earned for battles fought, it's the "bragging rights" that
are being purchased.