RE: Lansa vs. Plex -- MIDRANGE-L

If you are going to consider everything, you should also consider GeneXus
(www.genexus.com).  It is a PC based development tool that can generate RPG
& Cobol for the AS/400, but also VB, Visual FoxPro and Java that can use the
AS/400 and SQL Server as database servers.  It is widely used in South
America, but I'm not aware of too many users in the USA (we are one of the
few).  We have developed over 500 GeneXus programs.  I haven't seen LANSA,
but I would say GeneXus shares some attributes with Plex.  We haven't run
into anything that GeneXus can't do.  If is definitely much more powerful
than ProGen, but also comes with a much more steep learning curve.  I would
say with 5 days training you could be developing simple to intermediate
level programs.  GeneXus is well suited to developing applications that use
existing files from legacy systems, but really shines when developing apps
from scratch.

Dan Thomas
Director of Information Technology
MDI
4500 Progress Blvd
Louisville, KY  40218
(502) 318-1208


-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:38 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Lansa vs. Plex


PLEX is the new name for Synon/Obsydian (remember IBM's strategic 
direction?), so we're talking about 4GL or CASE tools here. ProGen Plus is 
another, and BCD (www.bcdsoftware.com) claims a 2001 SHOWCASE Product 
Excellence Award for 4 years in a row. I've never used it myself. Anyone 
remember Genesis from Sofbro?

At 10:00 AM 2/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Jimmy,
>
>Enjoy the journey.
>
>There are a whole plethora of tools out there.  However, different tools
>for different jobs.  I am not familiar with either of the tools, nor what
>job they are supposed to solve.
>
>Other jobs you may want to consider tools for are:
>
>- Change Management
>- High Availability
>- Programming productivity
>- Database manipulation
>- Reporting
>- Web interfacing
>
>I don't know if this will help you:
>http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/10.html
>
>I searched the archives at:
>http://archive.midrange.com/
>and found 273 hits for lansa and 17 hits for plex.  Most of the hits for
>plex had lansa in the title so maybe there is some good comparison?
>
>Rob Berendt
>
>"Green, Jimmy" <jgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>02/13/2003 09:15 AM
>Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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>
>We are converting from mainframe to iSeries.  We are evaluating
>development
>tools.  We have narrowed it down to Lansa and CA's advantage Plex.  I was
>wondering about some real users opions of the products.  Do more prefer
>Plex
>or Lansa? Maybe some pros and cons for both.
>
>Thanks for your help!!!
>
>Jimmy Green
>I.T. Operations Mgr.
>Grocery Supply Co.
>903 885-7621 Ext 268


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