Re: iSeries Access for Web

By next year this time you will add PHP to the iSeries Access, HATS,
Webfacing, etc., group.  

I say this not out of bias but out of what I see:  ISVs creating new
products w/ PHP, Biz Partners making easy $ by tweaking open source apps for
their customers, and AS400 depts snubbing their noses at other depts because
"cool" and enterprise-strength web (Internet, intranet, extranet) app don't
require a new server because the AS400 dept already has the server.

SOX compliance, billing application for 100s of concurrent user, components
in large banking applications, etc., are some examples of apps...all
accessing data from the 400.  Not via ODBC but natively.

I'm not asking you to believe but just suggesting you watch the growth of
PHP & the types of applications created.  Yes, you've heard this before w/
many other solutions, including Websphere, which is why I asking you only to
watch.

Jim Dillard 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:56 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] 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 platform.

It could be worse.  We could be dealing with a platform where the highest
priority task was one monitoring mouse events;  one where a user moves a
mouse across the screen and about eight hundred messages are sent to the
program controlling the forefront window.  The System i knows how to
effectively manage server workloads, at least  <smile>.
 
IBM finally came out with iSeries Access for the Web, and Webfacing, and
HATS as interim, stop-gap measures, in response to recalcitrant users who
were slow in moving to Websphere.

I don't blame recalcitrant users, though.  Under a 5250 paradiam, people
could create robust, turn-key solutions without worrying about architecture.
The native interface was so simple and well integrated, and performed so
well that new applications were popping up in every industry for quite a few
years.

I'm still optimistic about the platform.  We need to move past interim
solution, though.

AJAX could be a key.  We're beginning to see applications with desktop-like
interactivity, even though the applications are hosted on a server, and the
majority of code is running on a server.

Nathan.


 
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