Re: Green screen - it's time is over

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Paul.  IBM wants to do away with the green
screen because if you start doing all client/server they'll
make more money because you'll need a bigger machine and
more software to do it.  So they are "taxing" us for
interactive.

Simple math.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:17:18 -0600
 "Paul Raulerson" <praulerson@hot.rr.com> wrote:
> Who says the green screen is history?
> Just how much of todays business do you think gets down
> outside of a green screen
> and batch?  <grin>
>
> Okay, some of the screens are windows applications now,
> but they are still pretty much
> just green screens - with only limited intelligence in
> them. (After all, they are Windows! :)
>
> But a little more seriously, the green screen and batch
> world are far from dead.
> The are, in fact, still the most used application
> platform on the planet, if you count
> in the UNIX applications and the OS/390 applications.
>
> Green screens, even on the iSeries machines, are not
> going to go away for a long, LONG
> time.
>
> -Paul
>
>