Re: Who Uses WebSphere Express? -- WEB400

Well...we use Express, but not in production. We have no plans on using 
anything else unless our ERP package changes requirements.

On Apr 2, 2005 7:06 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm going to cross-post this to MIDRANGE-L as well, because I think it
> is a valid question for that list, as it's an overall technical
> question. But David will let us know one way or the other.
> 
> The situation is this. On one of the iSeries forums, a contention has
> been made that WebSphere Express is inadequate for use as a corporate
> web application server. I vehemently denied this, since I use it and I
> know of several clients using it to some degree. But many of my clients
> are in the pre-production stage, or else are using the full WebSphere
> product, and so I'm not a good source of information for this. Further,
> someone implied that IBM has no idea how many people are actually using
> the product, so that asking them would not help. Again I disagreed, and
> I will try to ask some folks within IBM. However, I thought it might
> also be appropriate to go to the horse's mouth, so to speak, and ask the
> vast community that makes up midrange.com <http://midrange.com> and see 
> what they are doing.
> 
> So, I was wondering how many of you are currently using WebSphere
> Express on an iSeries in production. While I realize that some may not
> be able to say much due to corporate privacy issues, any additional
> information would be welcome, such as number of users, intranet vs.
> Internet, type of applications and so on.
> 
> I plan to gather this information and include it in an upcoming article,
> so if you'd like to give some information but not have it publicly
> available, feel free to email me directly and state that it's not for
> the record.
> 
> Thanks in advance, everyone! I think it's time we start getting some
> real information out there and fight the FUD that's I feel is going to
> happen very shortly as vendors begin to position themselves to get the
> greatest piece of the iSeries pie. If you're interested in reading why
> I feel that way, please see my just-published article, "The iSeries: The
> Once and Future King" at MCPressOnline:
> 
> http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@.6b2216b3
> 
> Joe
> 
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