Re: Lansa Development Tools

Mike,

I was not attempting to make a comparison of Lansa and the former Synon
products, I was responding to the comment made that he had heard that
development had stopped on these products.  I was demonstrating that both
of the products have active release schedules.

For the record, Plex has far superior cross platform capabilities to Lansa
and has had them for years longer.  The first wide scale WAP application
deployed in the world (on any platform) was performed by a company in
Scandanavia using Plex.

I have all of these products -- Lansa, Plex and 2E.  I personally use Plex
on a regular basis.

As I said, I do not want to get into a comparison of the products or sling
any mud on Lansa.  If I was starting from ground zero, had no experience in
any of the products, and was looking for an AS/400 solution, I would likely
choose Lansa over Plex because it seems to be more widely used and is less
expensive.  To be perfectly honest, however, I would likely choose a
Java/WebSphere solution and forego these tools altogether.

Mark Phippard
SoftLanding Systems




                                                                                
                                        
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Mark Phippard wrote-

>snip
>2E just came out with a new release that includes an ILE RPG generator.
>Next release is going to have direct web generation.


So what? LANSA for the Web has been around since 1997 and is well proven &
widely installed.
>
>Plex came out with a new release over the summer that has greatly enhanced
>the product, and another one is coming out early next year with major
>enhancements.
>


Will these include WML and cross platform support (ie NT, UNIX iSeries)
already in LANSA?

Has some other salesman talked with Mark?

Mike Dunnion.
MDC Information Systems




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