Re: PC Front-ends to AS/400 data

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Exactly Nina.  I way, way underestimated the value of a central point of
control for version levels, software support, security issues, and data
repositories.  I also underestimated the permutations available to muck up
an application when you have to deal with several versions of Windows 95,
a version of Windows 98, and 2 or more versions of Windows NT.  

Add in the problems of applications being physically distant and not being
easy to manage or update and I quickly came to understand that a
client/server application with 300 screens would become a nightmare if in
fact a full installation could ever even be accomplished in a reasonable
amount of time.

I am still excited about client/server because it is so effective for the
user, but it is not an easy solution.


In <374B673B.120AE7BA@datadesigninc.com>, on 05/25/99 
   at 10:15 PM, nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com> said:


>> > I like Visual Age RPG for client/server but after using it a while I now
>> > know why client/server never got off the ground.

>why??  the difficulty in keeping everything in sinc?

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