RE: Businesslink

They have a new product out that doesn't use the 'box-in-the-middle'
approach.

Check out  http://www.businesslink.com/



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Bolhuis [SMTP:lbolhui@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 11:29 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Businesslink
> 
> Jeff,
> 
>   One of my customers and I worked with their product about a year ago
> and it was not ready for prime time.  They used a UNIX server (Pentium
> PC size) as the host for the JAVA code and for any web pages or
> graphics
> you wanted to serve up. That box connected to the AS/400 via SNA over
> T/R or Enet.  The problems we had were just getting the applet to run
> in
> both Netscape and Internet Explorer.   I believe it worked well in
> Netscape but flat didn't go in IE.
>   At that time they were JUST getting print capability but it was very
> kludgy.  Also one problem with the web hosting side was that you had
> to
> refresh EVERYTHING each time you updated.  We had 70,000 images and
> only
> added 3-400 per night so reloading the entire 70K every night was
> rediculous.
>   Remember this is a year and a half ago so by now I hope they have
> moved forward.
> 
>   Larry Bolhuis
>   Arbor Solutions, Inc
>   lbolhui@ibm.net
> 
> Jeff Carey wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone ever heard of Businesslink:
> > 
> > www.businesslink.com
> > 
> > they have a 70k java applet and server software for the as/400 which
> > provides 5250 emulation, printing, and file downloads.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience with this product?
> > 
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