RE: Palm PDA <--> as/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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You bring up a point that I havn't been able to resolve yet... Personally I
do not have a pda yet, I was asked to code for the palm version... But if I
was to buy one for personal use I would lean towards the pocketpc...  But
since I work in the medical field, it seems all the doctors use palms, so
thats why I need to code a palm version...

but any how... I'm going to look at the different options suggested, and see
what I can come up with...

My guess would be to use a development system that supports both palm and
wince, so I only have to write the app once with just minor modifications
(if that's possible)

thanks...tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Richter [SMTP:srichter@AutoCoder.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:41 AM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>
> A front page article in the wall street journal today re palm and its
> recent
> problems.
>
> Looks like palm is blowing its lead. They think they can do it all.
> hardware
> and software.  End result:  palm market share down, windows pocket pc up.
>
> Another example, ( apple, palm, our as400 ) where a platform that has the
> hardware and software controlled by the same entity is at a long term
> disadvantage to a platform where the os is controled by one company and
> the
> hardware by another.
>
> Steve Richter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hatzenbeler, Tim <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:55 PM
> Subject: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>
>
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> >I was asked to create a small portable version of an applications that I
> >have on our as/400, but for a palm pda...
> >
> >I was wondering if anybody has tried it... Writing the app, doesn't look
> too
> >hard, but transferring the database or a subset of the data ie: select *
> >from ..... where user = 'tim' or being able to push the changed data back
> to
> >the as/400 to be resynced into the master files, is where I'm stuck...
> >
> >Any help, ideas or code would be tremendously appreciated...
> >
> >p.s.  if this is off (list) topic, please e-mail me directly...  Thanks,
> >again...tim
> >
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