RE: 520 pricing structure

> From: Brad Stone
> 
> Sorry, I guess you weren't clear when you made your
> statement.    As for "inferior", we opinions are like...
>  *cough*  :)

Yeah, but my opinion is right <smile>.

>From a purely objective standpoint:

1. JSP UI is compiled to machine code, whereas CGI code is template
driven and must be at the very least be read from a pool each time.  And
unless you store all of your snippets in memory (which is one big pool),
you'll have to read the stuff from disk.

2. The JSP portion can be moved off of the iSeries onto a $500 server
box.  This can offload that nasty ol' JVM from the iSeries if memory is
your big concern, but even more importantly it can allow your user
interface to be in the DMZ, totally separate from your production
iSeries.

3. The JSP tag library is an industry standard, understood by a very
large community of programmers.  The CGI syntax you use (including the
names of the procedures you call) depends on the variation of the CGI
library you use.

Those are the most glaring architectural deficiencies of the RPG-CGI
approach.

Joe