Re: No 5250-based applications

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

Nathan,

Thank's for the qualification, but I'm still curious. What type of
applications are you talking about here? I've yet to see a real data entry
web-app that compares to what can be done using 5250 or client-server. And
unless they offer equivalent functionality, it's difficult to make a
comparison about which technology provides a more productive development
environment.

Please understand that I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here. I've
been wanting to do more in the way of web-interfaces, but I haven't been
able to justify asking my users to accept an application that offers less
usability, simply so that I can say we're web enabled. Perhaps I'm too dumb
to see it, but what is the advantage of a browser interface to an internal
corporate end-user?


John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@haaga.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 13:33
Subject: RE: No 5250-based applications


> > From: "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
>
> > The program is easier to write? Surely you jest.... :)
>
> Well, I'd better qualify my previous statement.  For me, it's easier to
> write.  But that's not because I'm inept at Visual Basic.  In fact, I
spent
> six years of my career devoted mostly to building Windows applications.  I
> did a lot of work in VB, as well as Visual Foxpro, and Delphi.
>
> The reason that RPG Web development is easier for me now, is because I
first
> put a lot of work into building a framework of ILE modules to support Web
> projects.
>
> Hope that qualifies it.... :)
>
> Nathan.


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