Re: Opinions on "good news/bad news"... picking Websphere or MS .ASP or .NET

On 7/7/06, Dave Odom <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gang,

Is this the proper forum to ask about comparing/contrasting starting
Web development against the i5 in Websphere vs. MS .ASP or .NET?   We
can go either way as we have both environments even though some here
lean toward the MS environment because they don't like IBM and because
MS has been "marketed" better and seems to have a better set of
development tools (ease of development, learning curve, etc.).

It is not marketing. .NET is an outstanding framework for writing
applications. The big advantage that IBM has to spend billions to
counter with its own cross platform framework is that a .NET
programmer can code desktop apps, web apps, office automation like
Excel and SQL procedures. In the Linux world you have to know Java,
PHP, C, SQL procedures and even .NET for office automation.  There is
a lot I dont know and I dont mind being proven wrong.  This is just
the way I see it.

Our web applications development has started out slow and limited as
there's not much skill here to build anything more than simple web site
pages and some .ASP applications getting/sending data to the i5.   So,
I'm concerned about "ramp up" time (creating the environment, learning,
getting productive) to do some simple apps that display results of
queries (multi-row displays like reports users can scroll through), some
single row display, insert and update.  Of course, I expect the typical
insatiable "need" for more function/feature over time.  Development will
not be in RPG so we don't have to worry about that added learning curve.
 Most i5 apps are "turn-key" vendor apps and while in RPG, we will not
develop skills in this area.

So, opinions please on both development environments vis-a-vis, ramp
up, short and long term directions, what it takes to set up a Websphere
development/support environment vs. MS and any "tid-bits" you all would
care to offer.

what about the CPW of your i5 system? The i5 runs batch and green
screen interactive very well.  But I question that the popular 1200
CPW 520 will have enough horsepower for client server.

-Steve