Re: iSeries Access for Web

Hi Nathan, you've resumed very well the situation in a few paragraphs.
Really the best resume I've seen.
This is really our main worry about the future of the iSeries pattform

Saludos/Regards,
Guillermo

We hear the same complaint from our customers.  Department heads and
casual users want a GUI point-and-click interface, while data-entry people
want to hold on to the 5250 interface.

But iSeries Access for the Web has the same problem that all
screen-scrapping and 5250 conversion programs have.  The user interface
remains essentially the same, while performance goes down and hardware
requirements to up.

Data entry people get mad because performance is worse.  Casual users get
mad because their favorite GUI features weren't implemented.  The CFO gets
mad because the IT department is asking for new equipment.  iSeries ISVs get
mad because they keep loosing market share to Wintel platforms.

ISVs eventually "try" to migrate their products to .Net, only to learn
after huge development efforts and costs that .Net has unanticipated
architectural, security, performance, and other types of  issues, which
hardly arise under a 5250 paradigm.

But with a little smoke an mirrors they figure they can pass it on to
their customers, until the customer begins seeing parallels between .Net and
their experience with thick-client architectures of the 90's, which were a
pain to manage.

Nathan.