RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6

> Joe...    How many different web servers do you or your clients have? Only
> one each?

One or two, depending on the level of separation of applications.  Most use
IBM HTTP server (or pbA) for mission critical systems, but they may run a
non-iSeries Apache as well.  One or two use off-platform Apache exclusively
and connect entirely via the toolbox.


>      Check around... it a good chance that IIS is loaded on one of the
> Win/2k PCs. It is delivered on the Windows installation CD and rather easy
> to get up and running. ASP is also very easy to install as well.

Most of my clients are (rightly) wary of Internet access to their machines
and only allow very limited access to their network, usually through private
internal addressing and NAT, with heavily firewalled access.  You'd have to
purposely portmap the workstation address in order to get IIS available, and
on a DHCP-served LAN it would be all but impossible.  So on a normal
network, a workstation web server is pretty useless except for some sort of
intranet sandbox.

Somebody might be playing with IIS internally, but standard network security
won't allow them to run free in the outside world.


>      If you are not willing to accept IIS as a useful tool, so be it. I'm
> betting that you are not alone with your decision regarding IIS but,
> thousands of IIS machines continue to exist so you must be in a minority.

Yeah, well, just because a lot of people use it doesn't make it good,
either.  A lot of people use Microsoft FrontPage for their web sites, and
for much the same reason.

Anyway, this quickly devolves into an opinion debate, and your opinion is
just as valid as mine and those of my clients.  I have to work in the world
of my end users, and most of them simply don't want IIS.  That's the
reality.

Joe