Morning;
Thanks to all who responded.
This helps give me some insite on how to respond to the "Cobol guys"
Thanks again Scott, Barbara, Jon
Have a good day.
Darrell Lee
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Today's Topics:
1. RE: What do I use? (Paul Raulerson)
2. RE: What do I use? (Joe Pluta)
3. RE: What do I use? (Joe Pluta)
4. RE: Excel Prototypes for cobol programmers (Jon Paris)
5. Re: What do I use? (Pete Helgren)
6. Re: What do I use? (Paul Raulerson)
7. RE: What do I use? (Joe Pluta)
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date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:36:20 -0500
from: "Paul Raulerson" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: What do I use?
I certainly do not buy that the web and its tools are good enough today.
They are --> maybe <--- about as good as running applications on an very
early System36. For subjective proof, look at the very sophisticated and
cutting edge tools Google has now made available - wordprocessing and
spreadsheet in particular. They are good, but not many people are throwing
out Word and Excel to change to them. The standalone applications are
simply
*better*.
To take that further, to do much of anything intensive with a web
interface,
such as play a video, you have to have locally installed software anyway.
I do not even agree that web interfaces are the "way of the future." We
are
entering a time where CPUs are both plentiful and powerful, memory is
increasing by leaps and bounds, and everything is pretty much connected by
broadband. This is an ideal and fertile environment for locally hosted
interfaces to remote information and applications. (Broadband will only
get
faster and better.)
To address your final issue, a VA-RPG application is every bit as solid as
a
green screen application running in an emulator, and usually provides for
a
much better user experience than a standalone web application.
Now, even given that, there are some pretty good web applications out
there
today and yes, they are getting better. (Look at Google Earth for
example.)
And there are even situations where a web interface is superior to a local
(i.e. fat) interface, but that is the exception, not the general rule.
-Paul
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Subject: Re: What do I use?
I disagree. The web, and its tools are good enogh today, and
improving. Web applications are oriented to 24x7 operation and provide
the tools to keep data secure and redundant. Cost is going down.
If you want something more solid, you will have to stick with the "green
screen" on real terminals.
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