Re: Web enablement options (previously private)

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The company that we purchase our rating software from is PMSC (now merged
with CSC).  It is all green screen stuff, but apparently their "new" user
interface is GUI and it uses a Jacada server to translate the 5250 screens
to GUI.

It looked neat when they demoed it.

Apparently they are going that route because new business is not keen on the
green screen approach and GUI based solutions are eating into their market.

Even though it looked neat, it seemed more of a patchwork solution as
opposed to a clean implementation.

Only other thing I can add about Jacada is that they [PMSC] said it is Java
based.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "jt" <jt@ee.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: RE: Web enablement options (previously private)


> IMHO, that's because they grew by purchasing technology, instead of
> gradually and developing it internally.  Sometimes that works well, but
> other times that works against ya...  When the purchase of a technology
has
> more to do with the large company's stock price, than anything else, I'd
say
> that approach works against...
>
> Don't know all the particulars of Jacada, however...  So that's just a
> guess...