I may do that. I didn't realize there was one. I should spend more time on LinkedIn.
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 9:24 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i GUI Frameworks
Rick,
That reminded me of Dorothy's line at the end of The Wizzard of OZ. "There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home."
Thanks for sharing that. I personally never fell into the trap of writing brittle, monolithic code. And I haven't seen a lot of it, personally. I've always written modular code. So it's hard for me to understand the scope of the problem.
You should consider sharing your experience with the LinkedIn group.
-Nathan.
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From: "Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 7:42:05 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i GUI Frameworks
Nathan,
It sounds like Stuart makes an assumption that legacy applications are 'brittle'
and have no strategic benefit. While I am sure this is true in some cases, in others I don't think so. I believe my company to be an example. About 2-3 years ago we undertook a project to replace our core iSeries application with a newer system. 'AS/400' (how the company refers to it) solutions were not even considered to my knowledge because they were seen as legacy and old technology.
At the end of the day it was determined that due to the size of our company we needed a mainframe application. The vendor chosen had a system written in COBOL with a GUI front-end tied together with web services. In the end it was cost prohibitive to make the change. I was struck by the realization that all that work just pointed out that we needed what we already had.
Since that time though we have been allowed to update and modernize our iSeries applications and move toward a services based architecture. This wasn't allowed prior to that time.
Rick
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