RE: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON?

I did not attend the Webfacing but have tried it here and it works ok.
It is a good transition concept, but they (IBM) makes it pretty clear
that there is a big performance impact with it.  We don't have enough
experience with it to know for real.

Unfortunately, IBM is only going to "be here to stay" if they can
convince the market place that is true.  Is anyone out there (besides
current upgraders and new boxes in the same office) buying New iSeries
boxes where they are displaying Unix or NT or ???  I think IBM has given
up on the smaller accounts and is concentrating on stopping the bleeding
in the large accounts. - But that is just, of course my humble Opinion.

john

John Bussert
Swift Technologies, Inc.
www.swiftorder.com
847-289-8339
847-289-8939 (fax)
jbussert@swiftorder.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 11:10 AM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON?

>Did anyone attend.  Did it help you form any
>opinions about IBM's Webfacing?

Hi Nathan!  I attended several Web-technology sessions.  (I sure wish
there
were a better word for this stuff...)  I came away from the Webfacing
sessions with the distinct impression that IBM is here to stay.  I'm not
certain that this is going to work for us in particular (we use Cool:2E
and
are exploring other possible routes to Internet-enable our applications)
but
it's an intriguing concept.  It's NOT screen-scraping, so things like
pop-up
windows actually open a new window, but like all browser based
interfaces,
it suffers from "don't back up" syndrome.

I have a suspicion that IBM intends to introduce Java and Web-technology
to
mainstream programmers by making the initial conversion as painless as
possible.  Once the Java stuff is running, the programmers will start
tinkering, and Web-technology will then become as "iSeries-ish" as RPG
is
today.  This is my opinion only; certainly nobody at COMMON came out
with
anything like that.  Just a suspicion on my part.

Is there something in particular you were looking for?
  --buck
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