Re: WebSmart... -- WEB400

Let's stick to the facts Eric.  mrc can generate CGI-RPG but it's not our
recommended approach.  (6 years ago when we started developing Web
applications we used CGI-RPG but as technologies have evolved so have our
products).  If you're looking to build Web applications shouldn't you use a
language that was designed for the Web development?  

Is Java hard to learn for someone coming from an RPG background? Yes but one
of the keys to our products' is our ability to empower a traditional
(RPG/COBOL) developer to instantly develop industry standard J2EE
applications and also have all the source code available so the developer
can start learning Java and HTML the same way most learned RPG.  Best of all
our customers' don't need to learn a proprietary development language in
order to use our software. 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
 
Sal Stangarone Jr.
michaels, ross & cole, ltd.
 
Phone: 630.916.0662
Fax: 630.916.0663
 
Web: www.mrc-Productivity.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:05 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WebSmart...

> Maybe I got that acquisition wrong.
> There is RPGsp (RPG smart pages) which is by Profoundlogic (the 
> RPG-Alive person).
> Then there's Rsp (RPG server pages) which is by the folks at ProData 
> (the DBU people).
> Neither sight nor the BCDSoftware.com site mentions an acquisition. 
> Perhaps the
> person who mentioned this to me was mistaken.

(i am posting this reply for Eric Figura, who asked to respond to Bob's
statements. I am not associated with BCD, only that I have a customer where
I use their software, as well as RPG).
Bob,
I don't know where you received the misinformation in your post about BCD /
WebSmart purchasing RPG ServerPages or RPGSP. I am not aware of either of
them being for sale, however, we have not purchased either company or
product.

Regarding the part of your post about the vendor you have experience with,
MRC, one specific difference is MRC generates Java while WebSmart generates
either ILE RPG-CGI or Java.

FWIW: People when given the choice of developing in CGI or Java, based on
our experience, 95% of those iSeries users have selected ILE RPG-CGI. This
is based on our experience of 1,200 iSeries sites making that choice.

Why such a big lean towards CGI?  Our experience: Numerous RPG based
development shops find it easier to get their web applications to market,
they're more comfortable with ILE RPG-CGI than they are with Java, they can
preserve their existing iSeries back end system investment and they can keep
their existing staff who know their business and systems involved in the
development of their new web systems.  I can go on, however, I'll stop here.

Best regards,
Eric F. Figura
BCD - www.bcdsoftware.com

jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WebSmart...


> Maybe I got that acquisition wrong.
> There is RPGsp (RPG smart pages) which is by Profoundlogic (the RPG-Alive
> person).
> Then there's Rsp (RPG server pages) which is by the folks at ProData (the 
> DBU
> people).
> Neither sight nor the BCDSoftware.com site mentions an acquisition. 
> Perhaps the
> person who mentioned this to me was mistaken.
>
>
> -Bob Cozzi
> www.RPGxTools.com
> RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of Bob Cozzi
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:34 PM
> To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] WebSmart...
>
> I haven't used it, but I've been asking around (of their current 
> customers) and
> it seems that their RPGsp (which they recently acquired) is a much better 
> tool
> for web development.
>
> -Bob Cozzi
> www.RPGxTools.com
> RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.