RE: WebSphere App Server, version3.5

> From: Simon Coulter
>
> >If not, is there a no-charge version of WebSphere App Server for V5R2?
>
> No.  There is a single server edition of WAS (cheaper than the
> full-blown) and
> there will be a WAS Express but no decision has been reached as
> to whether WAS
> Express will be free or simply cheap.

I shall once again raise a hue and cry if WAS Express is not free.  To have
sold people on WebSphere as the strategic direction of application
development, and to have gotten people using it with a free version, and
then to remove the free version, is an unconscionable bait and switch.

The last time I brought this issue up (in June of last year), I was told
that Tomcat was the answer.  That was sufficient at the time, but now that
Tomcat is no longer supported, we're back to the same old question.

There must be a free supported web application server on the box.  If there
is not, the box should not be used for web serving.  If IBM forces my
clients to unsupported Tomcat as the only free web application server, then
I'll tell them to run it on a $700 FreeBSD box and the heck with the iSeries
as a web server.

And then my clients won't even have to upgrade their machines.  I'll just
remove the interactive load completely from the box, and they can defer any
upgrades.  And even when they do upgrade, they can buy a much smaller
machine, because they will need little or no interactive CPW, nor will they
need the extra memory required to run WAS.

Joe