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What are the ramifications of "cheap" 5250/QINTER support? (1) More functionality in (embedded) SQL? (2) A solution to the issue of WebFacing being an "expensive" web-enablement strategy due to its interactive component? (3) A tactical move encouraging existing customers to upgrade, thus maintaining the stream of OS software revenue and hardware maintenance revenue while keeping those customers out of the NT marketplace? (4) New display file programming support to extend the life of the green-screen environment? (5) CGIDEV2-type support/ease-of-use built into OS/400? (6) The realization that a court challenge by IBM against Fast400 customers would fail? If so, that makes "capacity on demand" a provocative subject? (7) Some other big new surprise? (8) None of the above: cheap 5250 support sells more hardware (and OS software and hardware maintenance services) than expensive 5250 support? We'll find out... -reeve
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