Nathan,
It sounds like Stuart makes an assumption that legacy applications are 'brittle' and have no strategic benefit. While I am sure this is true in some cases, in others I don't think so. I believe my company to be an example. About 2-3 years ago we undertook a project to replace our core iSeries application with a newer system. 'AS/400' (how the company refers to it) solutions were not even considered to my knowledge because they were seen as legacy and old technology. At the end of the day it was determined that due to the size of our company we needed a mainframe application. The vendor chosen had a system written in COBOL with a GUI front-end tied together with web services. In the end it was cost prohibitive to make the change. I was struck by the realization that all that work just pointed out that we needed what we already had.
Since that time though we have been allowed to update and modernize our iSeries applications and move toward a services based architecture. This wasn't allowed prior to that time.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 1:26 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i GUI Frameworks
From: Henrik Rützou
Nathan, would you ever consider making af 5250 application based on an
emulation over I/O from a MFCU (multi function 96col punch card
reader/writer) ?
LOL, it does sound humorous when you put it that way! I guess I could get around it by suggesting that ROA could be used in other ways besides extending traditional 5250 interfaces. But I've been pondering the assertions that Stuart Milligan is making over on Linkedin, and still don't have a good answer yet.
-Nathan.
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