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  • Subject: Re: Early Client Server on the AS/400
  • From: JanAS400@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:01:31 EST

In a message dated 12/26/98 8:01:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
DAsmussen@aol.com writes:

<< Given the benefit of hindsight, our decision to
 recommend C/S was probably a poor one at the time.  Why do you ask? >>
Because i'm an as/400 developer (rpg type) i've been asked to be an expert
witness in a lawsuit.   the suit is:   one of the big6 accounting firms sold a
"client server solution" in Jan '94 to a company, proposing a  switch from the
company's as/400 to unix, sybase, hp, and programs written in "C" for the 486
"PC" (we call this "fat client" now).    big problems, the code didn't work,
the systems crashed, databases didn't talk to each other, etc.    I'm
researching whether they could have gone "client server" using the As/400 they
had at that time.   or could they have used "pop up windows" and forgotten the
GUI interface?    I'd appreciate any of your thoughts about this..       In
May '94 IBM announced ILE and V3R7 of OS/400.    lots was happening with C/S
in early '94 at IBM.   Thanks for responding.     jan
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