Re: 64 bit Windows...

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

> Rob,
>
> I appreciate your posts on this topic!  In my view IBM has to replace
> all the top level technical decision makers on the iSeries team. 
You may be right but it could just as easily be the fault of marketing 
or at a higher level outside the iSeries.  We all believe that iSeries 
is the best and that is becuase of its technical excellence, not because 
of IB's adroit marketing.  I tend to think that Rochester can deliver 
technically.

> Replace them with people eager for the opportunity to work with the
> resources available to improve a world class operating system.   One
> place to start is by making technical improvements to the interactive
> subsystem and 5250 data stream. Not so much to make it an alternative
> to the browser, but to make it possible for iSeries applications to
> transition, display screen by display screen, from interactive/5250 to
> interactive/browser or a PC client to iSeries host setting.

Here I am sure that most people would agree with you. The interactive 
"tax" may have been dreamed up to encourage people to modernise their 
applications, but IBM would have been much better advised to make it 
easier to modernise the existing 5250 data stream.  They made a half 
hearted effort with WSG, which, if it had been developed further, could 
have been much more successful.  Putting HTML/Javascript into the 5250 
datastream is not rocket science and that is the route I have taken.  I 
have created my own tool to allow this.  A pity that IBM didn't do 
this.  But whether technical or marketing people are to blame, I do not 
know.

> This thread is about 64 bit windows? Here is an interview with Jim
> Allchin, a very high level MS executive, talking about 64 bit windows:
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=63208

I tried this but playing it was beyond Windows Media Player which fell 
over in normal Windows style.

Rob