RE: Jacada Seagull and the like

You're right, Janet, I confused Look and Propelis.  I initially got confused
because LANSA and Look were both listed, though LANSA distributes newLook.
LANSA in fact has different strategies.  LANSA is a 4GL with various UI
capabilities, LANSA/Client is a GUI query tool, and newLook is an
applet-based 5250 screen scraper.  I'm not quite sure what LANSA for the Web
is.  As I said, I get confused.  Regardless, it still fits with my basic
premise that the various AS/400 middleware and development tool vendors are
merging and/or cross-marketing.


Propelis, on the other hand, was bought by Jacada as you pointed out, and is
a system integrator.  I don't know much about it, except that their two
products (Propelis BPm and Propelis EAi) both claim to integrate legacy
applications into a "fully graphical environment".

There's little else of substance on their website.


Joe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of
> jkrueger@andrewscg.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Jacada Seagull and the like
>
>
> >> Since the article was written, Jacada bought Look and Seagull
> bought Renex.
>
> Seagull did indeed acquire Renex last year, but I'm not sure where your
> information about Jacada taking over Look came from...  NewLook is owned,
> developed and maintained by Look Software, based in Melbourne
> Australia.  LANSA
> has rights to redistribute NewLook in the United States.  As far as I can
> determine, there is no link between Jacada and either Look or LANSA.
>
> Jacada did recently acquire a company named Propelis Software,
> but I don't count
> them as a refacing product.
>
> Janet Krueger
> Andrews Consulting Group