Re: Best webifier for green screen applications -- WEB400

Subject: Re: Best webifier for green screen applications
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:47:31 -0700
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I've always considered HATS to be a "stepping stone technology" and not a
destination technology.

Call it "stepping-stone", "interim", "stop-gap", "make-shift",
"provisional", or whatever. Each of those terms is being overly generous to
every screen-scraping product out there. Transforming 5250 streams into
browser DOM objects makes the UI worse - not better, IMHO. You're adding
something like 30-100 times more CPU overhead, something like 20 times more
bandwidth, and reducing the productivity of end-users.

The reason I mentioned Profound's Genie (stepping stone) is they also have

a graduation path to ProfoundUI (new apps).

Wouldn't an "open access" interface be a stepping stone for virtually any
screen-scrapping interface - Genie, HATS, Presto, whatever? Wouldn't the
migration path be essentially the same for all?

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