Re: web services

Thanks Nathan for making it clearer.
the article, from www.the400group.com pub Insider Weekly
(sorry can't link to article, it's by subscription).
It's about a full page article, but the line that got me (and I
strongly disagree with)<quote>
While most iSeries shops have a web presence that consists of an HTTP
server to support static web pages, more and more are engaging in
web application serving and eventually will get involved in Web Services.
</quote>
Bob - I think "static" and "corporate presence" are not necessarily related.
The article gives the reading public (IT managers, etc) that the iSeries is
still in the
dark ages and only beginning to emerge. Web services is new for all
platforms,
not just the iSeries, and with a little research I could find thousands that
are way
beyond "static". I'm still fighting IT managers over whether the iSeries can
be
seriously considered a web server. This does not help.
<just my opinion>
jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@relational-data.com>
To: <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] web services


> From: "Bob Cozzi (RPGIV)" <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
> > I think they may be differentiating between commercial (or "popular")
> > e-commerce websites vs having a website for the company. I'm sure
> > there's at least 100 commercial e-business websites running on iSeries,
> > and probably thousands of others that are "just" corporate presence
> > websites.
>
> I seem to recall one recent estimate of 50,000 OS/400 systems running an
> HTTP server instance.  I seem to recall the source being credible.  But I
> don't remember the publication.  I wish I could remember.
>
> But "web services" is the term being used to describe "universal
directory"
> (UDDI) type services.  Web applications that are designed to interface
with
> a UDDI server.  That's why I gave a reference to the IBM alphaworks site.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com
>
>
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