NewsWire story on WDT/400

[edmund.reinhardt@xxxxxxxxxx]

WEB FEATURE: AS/400 AD TOOLS STRATEGY BRINGS E-BUSINESS
MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED
http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=7614
IBM preaches the e-business gospel, but many vendors developing
AS/400 applications don't seem to heed it. The lion's share of the
AS/400's thousands of old standby business applications are still
mired in green-screen technology. Well, if Mohammed won't come to the
mountain, the AS/400's Toronto-based Application Development Tools
(AD Tools) team has a plan to bring the mountain to Mohammed.

Yesterday, the AD Tools team announced a plan to consolidate all of
the key AS/400 e-business tools in one package that will include
CODE/400, VisualAge RPG, VisualAge for Java (including Enterprise
Toolkit for AS/400), and WebSphere Studio for AS/400. This new
package, dubbed WebSphere Development Tools for AS/400, should hit
the streets in October.

Customers who already have Software Subscription and VA RPG and
CODE/400 will get the new bundle as a free upgrade. (Customers who
have only VA Java can't get the upgrade for free because VA Java
isn't an AS/400 licensed program.) As a bonus, IBM is immediately
dropping the price of VA RPG and CODE/400 from $1,150 to $300 per
user.

Another part of this tools package will come a little bit after the
initial release. Toronto is busy developing a new tool for putting a
Web "face" on a 5250 application, with little or no change to the
host application. This WebFacing Tool will require WebSphere Standard
edition, which ships with OS/400 free of charge.

Down the road, IBM plans to consolidate not just the four tools
already mentioned, but all of the AS/400 AD tools into one package.
This will include RPG, Cobol, C and C++, and ADTS on the server, and
the new WebSphere Development Tools for AS/400 -- including CODE/400,
VA Java for AS/400, VA RPG, WebSphere Studio for AS/400, and the new
WebFacing Tool -- on the client. IBM plans a no-charge upgrade to
this package for customers with some of its existing tools and
Software Subscription, but it hasn't yet worked out all the details.
-- Cheryl Ross, NEWS/400 News Editor

* This story has been adapted from its original version on the Web.
For the full story, see
http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=7614
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Edmund Reinhardt, AS/400 AD Tools,  reinhard@ca.ibm.com
Dept 607,   IBM Canada Lab           TL 778-4392  Phone 448-4392


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