Re: WebSphere on NT vs. AS/400

[Dieter.Bender@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dieter Bender)]

Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2002 21:28 schrieben Sie:
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Mark, and Joe and other

> >In my opinion WebSphere is not a strategical product on OS/400

>That is an absolutely ludicrous statement.  I think there is no product
>that is more "strategic" for IBM and the iSeries than WebSphere.

and there was no product, that was more strategic than Office Vision and
Firewall
WebSphere is  a strategic product for IBM, but the as400 is not the strategic
platform for websphere and that's not making me happy.


>> On AS/400 the CORBA components are missing, for example.

>Post some specifics of things you can do on other platforms that you
>cannot do on the iSeries.  

from the IBM Websphere specification sheets:

         Message beans and JMS listener
         Business rules support
         Internationalization service
         Shared work area support
         Bidirectional CORBA connectivity
         C++ CORBA SDK to leverage C++ code
         ActiveX bridge to reuse Microsoft assets
         Business process beans technology preview
         High-speed transaction processing support
         An industry-leading messaging solution with MQSeries software

I mentioned CORBA, because it is the standard for using components cross
system; you can do this on as400, but you have to use the toolbox workarounds
and you can't use the standards. And this doesn't make me happy too.

>Then someone can respond to you.

and this person would have to clarify why ibm takes a lot of money for the
enterprise edition, containing features people don't need.

> If you are
>really interested in these issues (I do not think you are),

I'm interested in developing web applications with standards, I'm not
interested in work arounds and I'm interested in strategic solutions and it
doesn't make me happy seeing what ibm is doing with as400.

>then why don't
>you post the questions on IBM's WebSphere for OS/400 newsgroup?

The only question I have is: when will the as400 support the full version of
Websphere ???
BTW, asking this questions on as400 road shows the marketiers answered 'what
is the enterprise edition?

>Mark