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  • Subject: RE: Free OS/400
  • From: "Reeve Fritchman" <reeve@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 19:38:28 -0400
  • Importance: Normal

Well said...

 -----Original Message-----
From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Jim Damato
Sent:   Friday, July 06, 2001 7:06 PM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        RE: Free OS/400

What exactly are you looking for in a migration path?  Client server and web
software architecture is so different and so much more complex than
traditional AS/400 programming.  It's like writing a book and expecting your
word processor to provide a migration path to a movie.  It's so easy to
blame IBM, but the expectations are so unrealistic.

The migration path is the same as it is for any other platform -- pick from
this week's most prominent emerging technologies and learn them.

-Jim

James Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim W [mailto:jimw2001@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:21 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Free OS/400


Ahh, but by not GIVING us the decent migration path, they are forcing us to
come up with that also.  Seems like IBM has found a new way to lower its R&D

costs - which does benefit the bottom line! ;-)


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: Free OS/400
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:14:43 -0500

Jim wrote:
Gee, maybe IBM had the right idea when they created the Interactive Feature
pricing structure.  By charging a small fortune for the green screen
interface maybe it will force us to start using the system as a server
instead of as a baby mainframe.
---------

I'd tend to agree, if only they gave us a decent migration path.  Webfacing
is a poor solution; it's really just a glorified screen-scraper.  But then
again, the concept of moving an existing program from monolithic green
screen to a true client/server design is a lot of work that can't easily be
packaged and sold, and developing a standard client/server infrastructure is
a lot of work which doesn't immediately benefit IBM's bottom line.

Joe

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