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Isn't IBM's offer of Webfacing a Catch-22? If you buy the Standard edition, and use Webfacing to bypass 5250, then you will probably need Websphere. And the cost of Websphere ain't cheap. So then you could buy the enterprise edition, which comes with Websphere, but then you wouldn't need to Webface because you'd have unlimited 5250. Granted some people have gotten Webfacing to work with Tomcat. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com 01/21/2003 09:17 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Is the death of CFINT available for current AS/400 owners? > From: fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com > > So this will surely force vendors into rolling out a > quick & dirty web interface - which may not be free of > performance problems > - or force their clients into paying quite a lot more to retain 5250 when > they upgrade. Some bargain ! Frankly, we're ecstatic with the announcement over here at Pluta Brothers. Now, there are really only two options for software vendors: WebFacing or PSC/400. Certain applications will probably require WebFacing - for example, PSC/400 doesn't handle the advanced graphical DDS keywords for the "GUI" interface". But for everything else, the cost of development for PSC/400 is a lot lower than anything out there. Not only that, we have a green screen option that basically emulates the existing 5250 application in a browser, which means no retraining for the user base. Since you can literally convert your application to run on the web overnight, we expect to see a lot of interest from software vendors. Joe _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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