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I did not attend the Webfacing but have tried it here and it works ok. It is a good transition concept, but they (IBM) makes it pretty clear that there is a big performance impact with it. We don't have enough experience with it to know for real. Unfortunately, IBM is only going to "be here to stay" if they can convince the market place that is true. Is anyone out there (besides current upgraders and new boxes in the same office) buying New iSeries boxes where they are displaying Unix or NT or ??? I think IBM has given up on the smaller accounts and is concentrating on stopping the bleeding in the large accounts. - But that is just, of course my humble Opinion. john John Bussert Swift Technologies, Inc. www.swiftorder.com 847-289-8339 847-289-8939 (fax) jbussert@swiftorder.com -----Original Message----- From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 11:10 AM To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Did anyone attend the Webfacing lab at COMMON? >Did anyone attend. Did it help you form any >opinions about IBM's Webfacing? Hi Nathan! I attended several Web-technology sessions. (I sure wish there were a better word for this stuff...) I came away from the Webfacing sessions with the distinct impression that IBM is here to stay. I'm not certain that this is going to work for us in particular (we use Cool:2E and are exploring other possible routes to Internet-enable our applications) but it's an intriguing concept. It's NOT screen-scraping, so things like pop-up windows actually open a new window, but like all browser based interfaces, it suffers from "don't back up" syndrome. I have a suspicion that IBM intends to introduce Java and Web-technology to mainstream programmers by making the initial conversion as painless as possible. Once the Java stuff is running, the programmers will start tinkering, and Web-technology will then become as "iSeries-ish" as RPG is today. This is my opinion only; certainly nobody at COMMON came out with anything like that. Just a suspicion on my part. Is there something in particular you were looking for? --buck _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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