Re: NT vs AS/400

It didn't die. It lives on as CA/Express Toolkit, and I use it regularily.
It just hasn't seen the same level of development resources since IBM
switched their focus to Java. The V5R1 release of CA/Express (finally)
brings it up to the current OLEDB level.

I think it's important that IBM continues to enhance the toolkit themselves,
instead of relying upon third-party vendors. After all, the competition (MS,
Oracle, DB2/Universal) all provide a driver for their DB's.

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hall" <jhall@hillmgt.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 09:36
Subject: 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


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