Re: iSeries vs IIS web site

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you have a mix of everything currently. 

A marketing site with notifications and all that good stuff can be written in ASP.Net (IIS), Profound's stuff, PHP, RPG/CGIDEV or Websphere/JSP. 

A lot depends on where your internal skillsets lie and who will support the site long-term. 

Any of the above will work. It comes down to internal supportability.

How's that for a non-answer :-)

In my case, my preference is: ASP.Net, JSP, RPG and lastly PHP as choices. But I also have 16 years of Microsoft Experience :-)

If you decide to go the .Net route, feel free to contact me offline if you need some guidance. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
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message: 5
date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:36:21 +0000
from: Rich Dotson <rich_dotson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] iSeries vs IIS web site


Our current web site is www.wlerwy.com.   It runs on an IIS server but I am not looking to port it elsewhere.  For obvious reasons it will be a total scrap and rewrite.  Marketing wants a web site that will inform potential customers and draw their business to us instead of drive them away like our current site does.  I currently use ProfoundUI to develop a browser based interface for all of our in-house applications.   There will also be sections of the website that will allow employees and current customers to sign in to current iSeries applications.   This is currently being done using Websphere but is being replaced by new programs using the ProfoundUI interface.
So, in short.  We need a website to:
1. Promote WLE as a company and the advantages to using our services.2. Allow Employees to sign in to the iSeries perform job functions.3. Allow current customers to sign into the iSeries and enter bill-of-lading information, track train cars assigned to them, produce misc reports, etc...