Re: Development ideas

["alan" <steelville@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's one thing we are all grateful for, that we have "backward
compatibility" on the OS/400 (or is that forwards?).

I lean toward Linux thin-clients connected up to the iSeries.  The
iSeries will soon run just about anything. <g>

With thin clients you can "have your GUI and eat it too", in that you
can keep your database and logic on the server side where you can keep
it under control, while giving the user the GUI. A few (ha ha) are going
to want to keep their big fat PC's, but new users and 5250 replacements
can go thin client.

Trouble has been all the licensing costs for the facilitating programs,
and the lack of very much expertise out there.

I have seen stories, such as retailers putting in POS machines running
Linux as a thin client. I would like to hear from someone with some
experience with this.

- Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Development ideas


| You are overlooking the major issue with developing a critical app on
| Windows technology.
|
| Microsoft breaks their tech every 2 years.
...

| C/C++ will always be around for as long as we can see, currently.
....

| BTW, if you are looking at Linux desktops, Kylix from borland seems to
be
| real nice for application development.  The same Delphi code will
compile
| for Windows or Linux, natively -- as long as you use the cross
platform
| widgets and nothing OS specific.  Again though, I would make the real
| processing on the server backend and make the desktop piece just an
| interface and data validate.
|
| Adam Lang