I think IBM has accepted the Web Browser as a reasonable medium for both
internal and external applications. For external, you obviously have to
deliver content via an acceptable medium (i.e. HTML) that all your customers
have access to. For internal purposes, well, I am still scratching my head
on that one. Sure you can use HTML for *some* things, but I think IBM could
have come up with something proprietary that would have been much better for
it's customer base. By going to the web they have limited themselves on
variety of fronts (i.e. waiting for standards organizations to catch up, or
waiting for everybody to play the same way in the browser space, etc). I
think a mixture of both open source and proprietary would have been an
excellent fit moving forward.
They are trying to play the same as everybody else. IMO, this leads to them
always playing the game of who can come out with something better for the
browser vs. who can just plain come out with something better.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat
Barber
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:16 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] The Truth About EGL
Are you under the impression that every single company in the
country is either on the web or is going to be ?
Do you really believe every company must have a web application
to survive ?
I don't believe IBM has a clue as to what their customers do with
their machines.
Bob Cancilla wrote:
Trevor,
The facts are the facts.
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