Re: *** ADMIN: New category at Midrange Resources

I have spent quite a few off-hours looks for 400 web sites.
the www.ignite400.com page has a Showcase link, with
92 as400 sites listed. Unfortunately, using something like
www.netcraft.com which has an online tool to return web
server info can be misleading under many circumstances.
The front end server may be unix, iis, linux, with the as400
serving the "database pages".
The as400 may be only a database server with cgi, net.data
or something else used to make requests.
If I had my isp (who may have no clue what a 400 is) running
a site and each page is some interation with my 400, does this
count as a 400 site? I think it does! The whole idea of e-commerce
(the IBM way) is that it can be many machines, many operating
systems. Whether I'm front-end, middle, back-end, or whatever,
the 400 should count.
We should be able to come up with a list of 1,000s of sites, not all
on the front end, and under the main domain name. Many of the
Business Partners know where these sites are - their software is
running on them: Lansa, Advanced Business Link, Jacada, I/Net,
and many more. I've added a few to the ignite list by Lansa's long
list of references, with links to their sites (check out the Czech
Soccer League www.fotbal.com and Lansa's description of how they
replaced an NT (too slow) with an S10!!)
BTW-I assume most BPs are NOT running on 400s (the go cheap!)
and the 400 magazines -the slow and sometimes unreliable sites can't
be 400s!!
jim

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From: <MacWheel99@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: New category at Midrange Resources


> >  From:    david@midrange.com (David Gibbs)
>
> >  Folks:
> >
> >  I've added a new category at http://resources.midrange.com ... "Powered
by
> >  400" ... for web sites that are run on AS/400.
> >
> >  Know of a site that runs on the AS/400?  Make sure it's listed.
> >
> >  david
>
> Thanks to postings on this & other forums discussing the notion that the
IBM
> rebranding is for the purpose of helping IBM, not neccessarily for helping
> AS/400 & what can we loyal 400 fans do to extend the life of IBM
investment
> in R&D for the 400 & if IBM marketing is going to bury the 400 in
promotion
> of p-series for UNIX etc. by possibly doing IBM's marketing job for them
to
> get new 400 customers, a lot of such sites have been shared in past
postings.
>
> There is also an issue of testing ... how do you know a site is REALLY
> powered by a 400?
>
> I ASSUME IBM Rochester is powered by 400 or RS/6000 Ya think?   Rest of
IBM
> probably not.  I would not be surprised if some IBM sites are powered by
> non-IBM servers.
>
> I also assume some of the trade publications serving 400 are powered by
400
> but which ones?
>
> http://400times.co.uk
> http://www.as400journal.com/
> http://www.the400resource/ssl/ (AS/400 magazine)
> http://www.as400network.com (News/400)
> http://www.midrangecomputing.com/forums/
>
> Some of the 400 user groups might be powered by a 400
>
> I believe we were once told that midrange dot com is powered by a non-IBM
> UNIX box and LINUX
>
> I would assume that some of the vendors supporting the 400 world are
powered
> by 400 but how can you tell ... is it illegitimate to use that AS/400 box
> icon on your site if you are NOT powered by a 400?
>
> http://www.lansa.com - check out their Spotlight area ... now it is my
> understanding that LANSA for the WEB is not exclusively a 400 product ...
> they also support other platforms
>
> http://www.pacsun.com Pacific Sunwear (Anaheim, CA)
>
> http://www.songfile.com - someone once said this is powered by 400
programming
>
> http://www.firstcalldirect.ie - take MOTOR link
>
> http://www.erros.co.uk/ - a participant on midrange-l & an IMHO guest
>
> http://www.common.org
>
> Alister William Macintyre
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