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Joel. While I agree with you while we speak of pure AS/400 deployment, I don't agree with the original question since the outsourcing will no doubt take place on a PC with an SQL DB running cold fusion. There is no easy way to integrate that. Which is why I suggest sticking with the things that you are familiar with, and learning what else the AS/400 can do for you (ie web serving). I have too many examples of projects that went bad to believe anything else. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:20 AM > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture > > > I don't think outsourcing has to work that way. If it's clear who is > providing a service to whom and who is _paying_ for the > service, you should > be able to make it work reasonably well--no worse than interfacing to > packaged software. In our case the packaged software happens > to be the > order entry system we developed in house. With on line > ordering you're > always at the mercy of people being able to key in amazingly > odd stuff, but > "trained" order entry people can usually find ways to beat > your validation > scheme too. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Reger, Bill [mailto:breger@levitz.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 7:46 AM > > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' > > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture > > > > > > Brad, > > > > I find your E-commerce experiences frightening! We were > > thinking that we > > would be giving our requirements to the outsource group and > > they would work > > with us to design mutually beneficial interface layouts ... > > layouts that > > they could happily provide, and interfaces that would give us > > the discrete > > data we need. > > > > By the way, we are definitely planning to incorporate the > > sending back of > > order status information to our customers. Customer service > > to me is THE > > number one benefit that the web will provide (besides the possible > > revenue!). > > > > If I'm understanding you're experiences correctly, we won't > > have the chance > > to influence the outsource group to work with us? Am I > > getting this right? > > Frightening! > > > > Bill > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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