Hi Scott,
How are you?
I agree with you: the browser is today's iSeries Access. When you change a program on the iSeries (regardless of the language) it too is automatically accessible to every copy of iSeries Access. A whole industry built around deploying those "thick" clients is wringing its hands as they disappear.
Why the operating system vendors never tried to emulate the iSeries Access-iSeries server model is beyond me. I guess IBM wanted too much money for its patents. Just think of the robust applications could you have come up with if C# ran in a browser the way RPG does in iSeries Access.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Usability tell
Gary,
If you compare the size of the one requisite browser with all of the thick-client apps totalled up, I think you'll see that the size of the browser is pretty thin, after all.
However, this is a completely moot point. Everyone has a browser (if not multiple browsers) on their PC or other device already. So the size of the browser is really a non-issue, since it's going to be there anyway.
Also, when you update applications that run in a browser, you don't have to update them on each PC. Not sure if you've ever written applications that run on PCs, and had to update every PC each time there was a change, and had to worry about some being out of date for a while until updates were applied, and all of the other complications of thick-client
software, but I have... it's not fun. And is not an issue with
browser-based software.
On 1/23/2014 2:05 PM, Monnier, Gary wrote:
Here's some fuel for the fire...
A colleague at another company once said "If you think a Browser is a
thin client, think again. If you don't believe me just look at the size of a web browser. You'll see it is pretty thick!"
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit:
http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
midrange.com
