RE: Is the death of CFINT available for current AS/400 owners?

Isn't IBM's offer of Webfacing a Catch-22?  If you buy the Standard 
edition, and use Webfacing to bypass 5250, then you will probably need 
Websphere.  And the cost of Websphere ain't cheap.  So then you could buy 
the enterprise edition, which comes with Websphere, but then you wouldn't 
need to Webface because you'd have unlimited 5250.

Granted some people have gotten Webfacing to work with Tomcat.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
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> From: fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com
>
>                   So this will surely force vendors into rolling out a
> quick & dirty web interface - which may not be free of
> performance problems
> - or force their clients into paying quite a lot more to retain 5250 
when
> they upgrade. Some bargain !

Frankly, we're ecstatic with the announcement over here at Pluta Brothers.
Now, there are really only two options for software vendors: WebFacing or
PSC/400.  Certain applications will probably require WebFacing - for
example, PSC/400 doesn't handle the advanced graphical DDS keywords for 
the
"GUI" interface".  But for everything else, the cost of development for
PSC/400 is a lot lower than anything out there.  Not only that, we have a
green screen option that basically emulates the existing 5250 application 
in
a browser, which means no retraining for the user base.  Since you can
literally convert your application to run on the web overnight, we expect 
to
see a lot of interest from software vendors.

Joe


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