RE: Opinions Wanted

Since you're asking for opinions... <G>

IBM has WAY TOO MANY approaches to the web for the iSeries. Let's see,
if I've got it right, the IBM party line has been: use CGI, no, use
Net.Data, no, use CGIDEV2, no, use WebFacing, no, use HATS, no, use
iSeries access for the Web, um, no use a third party tool, um, no let's
get PHP or something like that, no, lets use...

The massive number of options has done nothing but cause confusion and
paralysis as people try to figure out what's the best option, and will
there be a better one next week?

Every company has limited development dollars, and IBM is no different.
100% of their web development dollars should go into making a _single_
approach to the web the best it can be. I think that single approach is
JSP, either w/WebSphere or Tomcat (or both.) The party line becomes
simple, "if you're going to the web with your iSeries, use JSP" no
questions, no confusion, simple. The discussion then becomes focused on
how to best develop JSP solutions, and IBM has only one place to spend
development dollars (plus they get a boost from the general JSP
community)

I'm purposely staying with iSeries-native solutions here and not looking
at off-iSeries stuff (Microsoft), but let me point out one thing from
the MS world. As huge as the MS world is (and it's huge compared to
iSeries) there is ONE SINGLE APPROACH to the web, use ASP.NET. No
confusion, no qualification, no ambiguity, just a consistent message. 

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
President & CEO
Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x11
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com

Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
  


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces+waldenl=techsoftinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces+waldenl=techsoftinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jon Paris
Sent: Thursday, 27 January, 2005 18:06
To: web400
Subject: [WEB400] Opinions Wanted

IBM's "WebSphere or nothing" approach and suggesting that more people
would
update more applications if IBM would support CGI (CGIDEV2 and other
options) within the tools to give people a lower cost of entry to the
web
world.

As part of the piece I'd like to include some specific, and preferably
practical, suggestions as to enhancements that IBM could make.

Any suggestions?

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com

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