RE: [WEB400] Who Uses WebSphere Express?

["Karl Lauritzen" <klauritzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM came in here with proposal to buy a separate machine just for that.
They said with all we do and wanting to run our business on web we
needed a separate machine just for websphere.
That was just the start by the time they were done they were up to about
300,000 in purchases.

We set up http on our one and only 400 and with Brads CGIDEV2 book and a
lot of trial and error programming we now run all our business on web.
The cost $300 and our time. We have even added an imaging system with
access via the web server,  a time clock and new form design tolls that
run on this one 400.  And we get complimented all they time by our
customers on how fast our web site is compared to our competitors.

And it was not just one IBM BP it was multiple.  No one ever brought up
the possibility of use of CGI and http. Makes you wonder where they are
coming from. I just stumbled upon it in researching Lansa type stuff as
alternative solutions. 

So websphere is a bad word around here. Also I see nothing that it can
do for us except put a lot of money in someone's else's pocket. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 8:20 AM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Who Uses WebSphere Express?

Just wondering... why is WebSphere Express too costly?

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Karl Lauritzen
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:45 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] Who Uses WebSphere Express?
> 
> We use Apache Http and will never use Websphere. Too costly for a 
> company of our size.
> When we can run apache and write CGIDEv2 and use what we have.

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