RE: application programming. the microsoft vs ibm approach.

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: William Washington
> 
> It seems that the rage now is graphical, browser-based (very thin
client)
> access to information housed on the back-end database.  I have a
client
> that is ready to throw out the in-house iSeries solution for an
outsourced
> .NET solution based solely on "look and feel."  Avectra
(www.avectra.com)
> has a very slick browser-based package that uses .NET and SQLServer.
> 
> The new powers-that-be feel that the iSeries is "old news" and nothing
of
> importance is running on it anymore.  The fact that we could duplicate
the
> look and feel and still have the iSeries security and ease of
> admiistration falls on deaf ears.
> 
> My claims of the iSeries capability of running the same type of
> distributed app is ignored... mainly because (I believe) that the
iSeries
> vendors do not exploit this user interface.  Those that do get the
> benefits of avoiding the "interactive workload tax" iposed by IBM, but
> it's a tough sell to build from scratch using the same system.  They'd
> rather more to a new box and buy a totally new system.

But you don't have to build from scratch!  There are tools that will
allow you to move your legacy application to the browser immediately.
WebFacing, for all its problems, is free, and my product is cheaper than
moving everything to a new box.

Joe Pluta
Pluta Brothers Design, Inc.
Developers of PSC/400
http://www.plutabrothers.com/p1.html