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Good to see some activity! I'm glad WEB programming on an AS/400 will NOT be associated with Latin, Sioux, or other such linguistic activities that are dying. OK - Here's a step by step method to grabbing your bosses/clients attention; 1) Here's the teaser - the Green Screen crowd need to go into their bosses office and shout "We should E-mail the customers their Bills" - "Why" - Well we'll save a BUNCH on printing! 2) Then - "The Customers need a way of seeing their orders" we'll save a bundle in manning the phones! 3) Then - "How about a forum to discuss our products" See above reason! 4) Then - "Why not let them order the stuff on-line instead of calling our 800#" - think of a call center available 23.999x7 they never ask for holidays off, and they don't have to be retrained when they quit!" See above reason! 5) Then - "Hey - lets get our Vendors to manage the stuff we've been ripping off the damn fax machine!!" See above reason! 6) Then - "Hey - lets make the vendors manage their OWN inventory!!" 7) Then - you'll get a call from the vendor "Hey - it's GREAT doing business with you guys!!" With E-mail - we can simulate work-flow too!! WE CAN do it - all we need is HTML, some sort of CGI process...and ... RPG - let's start with the technology we KNOW already with the software we've already written!! We'll do Java REALLY soon - but we MUST get their feet wet NOW - because the longer we wait, the longer someone will look @ the PC sitting in the corner and think that THAT'S the only way to do it... Just walk into your boss/client's office and say "I can't write another subfile anymore and I'm going to web enable it instead!!" The AS/400 does it ALL! E-mail (POP&SMTP) HTTP Server, XML, Java, WHATEVER - My system @ home is now a DNS on the web - I didn't think it could handle it, but I'll be damned - it does it JUST fine. Go to www.as400nut.com (under construction - so it's really a bore to go there) and ALL of the technology used to place you on my site was AS/400! LET THE CHANT BEGIN - LET'S CODE WEB! LET'S CODE WEB! LET'S CODE WEB! (from - "How to start a revolution in 30 days!") p.s. 3 months after my E-commerce stuff was outsourced, they still can't transfer it to the company it's been outsourced to... they are going to be 3 months late on a 1.5 month (6 week) deliverable... management of the sites will be 14 times as much work, the stuff we did was WAY more mature then anything a kid out of high school EVER could have done. So we survived the Christmas season with the AS/400 doing the majority of the E-commerce work (99%) wit an average day of 13,000 unique visitors, and over 4 million hits a day, not including graphics content served by Akami - so in the end, the AS/400 won. Too bad it's being transferred anyway...meanwhile, I'm writing for the most incredible B2B stuff ever thought up... on an AS/400... cool. Andrew Borts / Webmaster Seta Corporation 6400 East Rogers Circle Boca Raton, FL 33499 E-mail: Andrewb@setacorporation.com Corporate web site http://www.setacorporation.com E-Commerce web site http://www.palmbeachjewelry.com http://www.myfreeitems.com Voice: 561-994-2660 Ext. 2211 / Fax: 561-997-0774 -----Original Message----- From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:38 PM To: web400@midrange.com Subject: RE: [WEB400] Who's doing Web work on iSeries? (was: ASP on AS/400 Apache) Buck, have you thought to try our PSC400 product? We handle popup windows. And function keys, and subfiles and fold/drop and message subfiles and display attributes and on and on... and our screens look much better than anything put out by either webfacing or web:2e. In fact, our fully "webified" screens look like web applications, not a converted green screen application. Performance is subsecond, even over the Internet. I can send you some before and after screen shots if you're interested, or walk you through an online demo of a few applications. We'll have a full set of online demos available next month. Joe Pluta www.plutabrothers.com > From: Buck Calabro > > Yes. The CA people were still in beta when we looked, so things may have > changed. Web:2E needs a special CA licensed server to run the > web app. At > the time, the product couldn't do pop-up windows. The actual > appearance of > the converted application was closer to the workstation gateway > than to what > WebFacing puts out. We never did get to try it on our box, so I can't say > how it performs compared to WebFacing. Please remember that Web:2E was in > beta when we looked, and might be worlds better by now. _______________________________________________ This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list To post a message email: WEB400@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/web400 or email: WEB400-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/web400.
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