Re: Webfacing out, EGL in

Well said Aaron.

It's easy for IBM to say, after 5 years, that they are done with a
technology and it's time for them and now their customers, to move on to the
next great thing... but in the real world, these projects take months, even
years sometimes, to get approved (client approves the expenditure for
iSeries hardware and agrees to go with a given technology, such as
WebFacing), launched, developed, tested, installed and get the users
trained.

Then before you know it, you're told by your software/hardware provider that
it's time to move on to some replacement technology that does not support
what you spent the last 3 years creating and implementing?

That's nuts.

I agree with Aaron's last statement:

"How can we as IBM i professionals make decisions for our organization's
longterm success when IBM is continually stabilizing their different
modernization strategies, and thus only allowing for short-term success?"



-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:41 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Webfacing out, EGL in

Webfacing has been stabilized and will not be enhanced, but it will

definitely be supported within the product for the forseeable future.

Please notes that we have also created a Webfacing to EGL bridge to

facilitate migration and adoption of EGL.

Bob, I know you didn't join IBM until recently (i.e. after Webfacing was
created and marketed), and maybe you would say it never was an option people
should have pursued - I don't know. But I hope you can see why people get
apprehensive about adopting modernization strategies from IBM. If the date
stamps are correct of when Webfacing first came out, then it has had a seven
or eight year life and is now being stabilized. We are getting technology
lifespans from IBM in regards to *some* toolsets similar to what we can also
get from Microsoft.

How can we as IBM i professionals make decisions for our organization's
longterm success when IBM is continually stabilizing their different
modernization strategies, and thus only allowing for short-term success?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com