Re: Please advise

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree on Delphi/400 - All of our heavy duty processing is done in
RPG/CL on the back end.

All of the user interface is windows.  You can convert over module by
module to Delphi and the only code  that needs to be re-written is the
user interface.  You can run over APPC (vi nsrouter etc.) or straight
tcp/ip.  One other benefit is that the AS400 processing counts towards
batch and not interactive.  This means you can use a much cheaper server
model.  

Another nice thing is that it really confuses the "AS400 - oh that green
screen stuff" crowd.

John Hall
Home Sales Co.


"L. S. Russell" wrote:
> 
> Have you investigated Delphi/400?
> http://www.borland.com/delphi/
> I use delphi all the time and I love it, it is not nearly as obfuscated
> as c++ tends to be. I even wrote a little program to filter rogers
> messages out of my inbox.
> 
> ubhalla@cgsinc.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello ! All,
> >
> > We  are software consulting/development company marketing ERP  package for
> > apparel industry to major apparel
> > manufacturers in US/Europe.  The package is written in RPGIII. The company 
>is
> > planning to rewrite package in order to
> > move away from Geen scrren look that does not sell anymore.  We want to add 
>GUI
> > to the package but want to stay on AS/400. We have already invested lot of
> > effort and money to emulate GUI  using some packages that basically takes 
>your
> > green screen and make it look like GUI screen. It does not work and is not 
>user
> > freindly. Please suggest what  language/direction we should go. We want to 
>keep
> > AS/400 as backend.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Uday
> >
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