RE: Green screen - it's time is over

By green screen, I meant 5250, Paul, and while I agree that legacy
applications will be using 5250 for some time, my opinion is that new
application development using graphical UI will outweigh 5250 development by
a large (and ever-increasing) margin from this point forward.

On the other hand, I think there IS a market for a purely TCP/IP-based
protocol, either HTML or some other variant, that can emulate the clean
interface of the 5250.  Most graphical applications are not nearly as
friendly to data-entry-intensive applications as our beloved green screen.

Joe Pluta
www.plutabrothers.cmo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Raulerson
>
> 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