Re: Is Project Lightning still alive?

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

Project lightning has gone GA. You can find out all about it at
http://www.as400.ibm.com/clientaccess/oledb/

I've used the Express OLE DB Driver and Toolkit for some projects. Without
getting into specifics, I'll just say that it has been somewhat
dissapointing. It was written to ADO version 1.5, and hasn't been
significantly enhanced since. As you've said, it's clear that IBM's focus is
placed entirely on Java right now.

If you are interested in doing any kind of serious MS->AS400 C/S, you'd be
better off looking at a third party middleware solution. Hit Software seems
to have a very complete OLE DB driver, but I haven't test it myself. You can
find them at www.hit.com

Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVID BULOG" <d2ba@xtra.co.nz>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 07:10
Subject: Is Project Lightning still alive?


> I would would like to hear the opions of anyone who has used the Project
> Lighting
> OLE DB Provider and SDK toolkit etc on a enterprise project --how did it
> work out? I have downloaded all the essentials required to start on a
> project I just can help noticing that there have been no updates since
1998
> (Maybe IBM are more interested in Java releated products-a shame for us
> microsoft lovers) and the product still appears to be in a pre-release
> state---reading the Redbook made me realise that this is exactly what I
have
> been looking for to interface the MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) to
the
> AS/400.
>
> cheers Dave


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