Re: easy400 site needs your support

About cgi & ibm's support...
> but it would be short sighted to (as much as I hate to
> concede Joe Pluta's point!) to develop something that IBM refuses to
> support (that's worse than IBM merely looking the
> other way.)

I think there is no doubt whatsoever that IBM will support the cgi process,
it is part of the internet standard for http servers. Please - don't anyone
get
the idea cgi is going away. It is still what "most" of the web is running.
This
is not an as/400 thing (like clp or rpg, etc), or even an ibm thing (like
sna). CGI is the standard way to write dynamic web pages, in rpg, cobol,
perl,
C, and a million other languages. And IBM has made the 400 version of
cgi fairly standard. It's not going away, like tcp/ip is not going away.
The Easy400 site, to short-sighted IBM may look like an expense item.
IBM doesn't market cgi, because they don't see how to make money at it.
(no imagination).
This whole discussion is about whether Easy400 may go away. IBM
seems to measure success by how many new boxes were sold last month.
They seem not to recognize that the more we can do with our 400, the
less likely Win2k, Sun & HP will not be replacing 400's. All the replacement
of AS400s I've ever seen, IBM was out the door along with the 400. There
is value in having customers for life, even if the new hardware only comes
around every 5 -7 years.
</rant>
now getting back to my cgi programming
jim

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