Re: I am in a Holy War about webserving from a System i

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Booth Martin wrote:
> Now all the other guy and I need to do is to find some organization
> that wants a couple of capable midrange guys to put a up a simple
> web app on their midrange machine as a learning experience for
> them and us.

I was lucky and fell into one of those opportunities about 9 years ago, 
and it allowed me to begin building a framework of ILE-based tools and 
runtime interfaces.

Some years later, I negotiated a partnership with an ISV that had big 
plans for deploying Web applications, but at the same time was 
conflicted over whether to use J2EE, MS .Net, PHP, or my ILE-based 
framework.

My framework started out in an underdog position politically, but I 
managed to gain a tenuous foothold by being the first one to get a small 
application to one of the clients in a production setting.  Over time, 
my partners invested millions of dollars into the politically favored 
J2EE and .Net frameworks which ultimately overextended the resources of 
the company and we began imploding.  All my J2EE and .Net colleagues 
left or were laid off.

A small group of ILE developers remained, and we began making plans for 
expanding the use of my ILE-based Web interfaces, but at the same time 
my partners began using sneaky maneuvers to gain control over my 
framework which climaxed with a surreptitious attempt to recast the 
relationship as an employer-employee relationship, contrary to our 
written agreements, which led me to terminate the partnership under 
threat of a lawsuit.  They finally stopped their harassment, and we 
parted without further incident.

I know how it can be a war-zone out there.  Best of luck!

Nathan.