RE: [WEB400] Who Uses WebSphere Express?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand what you're talking about, Karl.  Unless you have a
very small machine, WebSphere Express runs fine, and it only costs about
$2000, I think.

What can WebSphere do for you?  It can allow you to create web
applications on a standard web server supported by IBM.  Then, if you
web serving requirements get large, you can then offload the web serving
part to cheaper Linux or Window machines.  You can't move your web
server off of the iSeries if you're doing RPG-CGI.

As to what JSP Model II can do for you, that's a different story.  If
you have no desire to learn Java or use JavaServer Pages, then RPG-CGI
is fine for you.  But for people who need to move forward into web
services and portals and other new interfaces, Java is a better way to
go, and that means JSP Model II.

Joe


> From: Karl Lauritzen
> 
> 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.