Re: NT vs AS/400

The reason project lightning died is that there were other well
established products that did the same thing.  IBM decided it could also
make some money in that area but it couldn't catch up.

Check out www.missystesm.com  ACE/400
or
www.systemobjects.com  Delphi/400, JACi400, ActiveObjects/400 (Visual
Basic) ...

I am sure there are others too.

IBM should have dumped the money into marketing the other products
instead of trying to compete with them.

IMHO these products are great ways to integrate the AS400 into the PC
world.  They let you write in C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Java etc. on
the PC side while giving you record level access on the 400 side.  You
can write any processing you want to on the 400 side in SQL, CL, RPGIV
etc.  Only minor changes are needed to switch a program from using an MS
SQL Server to an OS400 Server.  

John Hall



David Bulog wrote:
> 
> Thanks Vance
> Part of the reason I have gone cold on the AS/400 is Project
> Lightening which showed great promise died.
> Anyway Im not the only one( I can name two "big names" in the AS/400 scene
> that have gone over to MS SQL Server you can find them at www.sqlmag.com
> 
> BTW there is a very good Wrox Press book which has a chapter devoted to
> DB2/400
> Professional ASP Data Access     ISBN    1861003927
> details at www.wrox.com . One of the previous posters said that you
> can make a living just by being an expert in one area of the AS/400
> and you can do that with MS. Wrong take a look at the Wrox Press
> site and you will see why .
> 
> Dave
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