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...or will IBM, in time, "suggest" that the user base migrate to JAVA..... ????? On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Nathan M. Andelin wrote: > > From: "Chuck Lewis" > > See you got that email too. I would have thought they > > would have had to setup shop somewhere else besides > > England to escape IBM legal (not that I am encouraging > > that !)... > > They sent me an email too. One interesting side-note. According to Dave > Slater at IBM, one of his goals is to "Convert the WebFacing runtime support > so that WebFaced applications run in batch mode and avoid the > cost/performance penalties associated with interactive execution." > > The question is how will IBM do it? The easiest solution would be for IBM > to do something like FAST400, which would be to set the bit that currently > flags a Webfaced job as interactive. But that would probably irritate folks > at Jacada and Pluta Brothers who were forced to come up with their own > alternatives to IBM's Workstation Interface in order to solve interactive > performance penalties. > > Will IBM's Webfacing product continue to use the existing *DSPF and > Workstation Interface? Or will IBM do what it requires it's competition to > do. That is, design an alternative interface. It seems to me that IBM > could run into trouble if their applications were able to use Interactive > features (existing workstation interface) without an interactive penalty, > but the products of other developers could not. > > Nathan M. Andelin > www.relational-data.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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