Re: Lansa Development Tools

Mark,

Points taken, I don't want to get into mud slinging either but I felt
(rightly or wrongly) that the issues were getting off the point and heading
towards vapourware (in the past I'v spent a lot of my company's money on
tools that didn't deliver).

We would be lost if there was no competition.

Mike Dunnion.

-----Original Message-----
From: MarkP@softlanding.com <MarkP@softlanding.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: 29 November 2000 17:01
Subject: 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.
>>
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>
>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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