Re: Re new announcement compared with old ones

Good points Mandy,

The overlays from the announcement also pushed iSeries Access for the Web. 
 Does that address any of these points?

Last iSeries Technical Conference I went to it looked like the WebFacing 
people had never talked to the iSeries Access for the Web people, nor vice 
versa.  (Some of the presenters admitted that they hadn't looked at the 
alternative).  Much of both products looked like a duplication of effort.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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I know I'm biased, being obsessed with both Domino and Java, but I would
have said the announcement of proper threads support for the AS/400 was a
far more important change, in terms of how the box could be positioned 
from
then on, than any of this spin over CFINT .....
Incidentally, WebFacing is an attractive product, but we think the fact
that it no longer *looks* like a 24x80 application can be a positive
disadvantage in terms of resilience of the results - the application still
wants to be handled in a civilised way by the user, but the user is 
tempted
to do things they never would if they could see an ordinary green screen
window - Back button, Refresh button, etc. - you can work around some of
this of course, but at least one customer threw out the idea of WebFacing
because of these problems (and went with Host on-Demand - but then that
uses interactive feature, of course!).
Mandy Shaw
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