So Scott,
How does OAR play into this mix? I'm not playing devil's advocate here but seriously think browsers are becoming way too vulnerable and could use some competition.
Thanks,
Gary
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 9:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: 'green screen' not sellable
IMHO, they are not thinking this through clearly.
If the goal is to have a web interface, there are many (hundreds) of ways to do that purely on IBM i. Why would you want to introduce a C# interface and a Windows server to the mix? Now you have to maintain two platforms all the time. This increases the expense and complexity of maintaining your application tenfold.
Granted, if your goal is to not use IBM i at all (eliminate the database and backend issues so it's purely on Windows, or is cross-platform -- though C# will not likely make it cross-platform) then there's some advantages to that approach -- mainly that it opens you up to a wider range of customers. But, you will also be open to a much stronger competition. And you will have more problems with things like reliability that bring with them a lot of hidden costs.
If you like IBM i and just want a web interface, why not do the web stuff on IBM i instead of Windows?
There's nothing web-based you can do on Windows that you can't do just as easily and just as well on IBM i. RPG can do web as well as any other language. <vendor>I work for a company that is in this business.. see
message from Brian May</vendor> Even if you don't want to go with a
commercial package, though, RPG can do web well with CGIDEV2 (if you don't mind coding it), or many traditional web environments are available such as Java, PHP, Ruby and Node.js.
IMHO, this attitude of "IBM i can only do green screen" comes from working with programmers who are 20 years behind the times and unwilling to try anything new. Fire those people, they are holding you back.
On 6/8/2015 9:36 AM, Hoteltravelfundotcom wrote:
I was talking Friday with an owner of a company that has billing
software for a particular industry.
Where there are frequent, government and insurance changes they have
to apply.
Their software is based on RPG. He said they want to rewrite in C#
because they cannot sell to new customers.
OK fair enough but do you think C# based is the way to go? Secondly he
said that they will keep the data on the IBM I.
Actually I have been working with mobile apps lately connecting a
desktop system using Delphi and I was thinking this might be a better
way for them to get their product to the public relatively sooner.
Taking a complicated old database from ibm I and trying to fit in C#
I think it hard but what are their choices?
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