Web Serving AS/400's ??

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey

Imagine a company having an  AS/400  and not using it for Green Screen 
but using it for a Web server of all things.  
Who would of thought ?     I guess it starting not to be such an "Unlikely
Candidate"

John Carr


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http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?VAR19980817S0021

Unlikely Candidate

                 Although it had a proven track record with Copart, when it
came to
                 developing a Web-based server management project, the Tam
Group did not
                 at first appear to be the obvious choice: The company is
dedicated to the IBM
                 AS/400 as its preferred server solution and the AS/400 is
not "traditionally"
                 seen as a Web server.

                 "It took some pretty long meetings to convince Copart of
the Web capabilities
                 of the AS/400," says Covington, senior marketing executive
at the Tam
                 Group. "The basic view is that the AS/400 is strictly a
green-screen
                 application with little or no GUI capabilities. We
demonstrated all the AS/400
                 could do, including communicating peer-to-peer with other
production
                 machines without data transition."

                 "We had an idea that we wanted whatever Web server we got
to be able to
                 integrate with our AS/400s so that we could use the
databased information
                 housed there for applications," says David Bauer, chief
technology officer at
                 Copart. "We had started talking about building a Web site
off of NT, and they
                 suggested using our AS/400 and told us about other
companies that had
                 already done it. It turned out to be excellent and fast
server for this purpose."

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