Re: 5250-to-HTML servlet?

[Christopher Joseph <christopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> That's because all screen scrapers (or, as they like to bill themselves,
> "non-intrusive" legacy interfaces) have the same common failing: they
> require interactive CPW.  And since IBM has just reduced your interactive
> tax choice to "all" or "none", unless you're willing to budget the full
> interactive cost, you can't use a screen scraper.  So, the price of a screen
> scraper is the cost of the product PLUS the cost of the full interactive
> feature.

Apologies - I am a still a novice IBM'er but doesn't the IBM sales 
strategy for the iSeries pretty much make the interactive vs batch 
arguament almost obsolete?

Iseriesnetworks article : 
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/news/nwn/story.cfm?ID=15912&channel=home

(apologies if this is a network members article and you cannot access it)

What are peoples thoughts on the affects of this change in strategy on 
"non-intrusive" legacy interface pricing?
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Christopher Joseph

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