Re: What About Price vs. Performance?

["Joe Pluta " <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not until you show me a business server that does the job better, Leif.  It 
makes absolutely no sense to me to make my server-side code portable at the 
cost of performance, just for the sake of being portable.  That's a red herring 
and a losing game, and it cost some major companies their livelihood (look at 
System Software Associates).

No, if you have something better than the AS/400, go ahead.  In the meantime, 
I'll use the best tool for the job, and if the time comes to find another 
server, I'll simply redesign my templates and move on.  Remember, Leif, all of 
my servers are encapsulated by a message, so they can be reimplemented in any 
language on any platform I choose.  I simply choose the AS/400, and have no 
reason to be "free" of it.

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."
- Janis Joplin

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So I laud your approach. Keep preaching the gospel, but go ALL the way. Don't 
rely on the AS/400 as the back-end. Then you are truly free.

Leif

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