[thelist] Flotsam and thensome

[Saidi; Marwan]

You may consider ColdFusion. The Enterprise edition, while pricey, has
native support for DB2. The server runs on Windows/IIS, Solaris, HP-UX, and
Linux. Check it out at www.allaire.com. 

Marwan Saidi

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Preston [mailto:razorwise at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:16 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Flotsam and thensome


Hello All,

First, a general comment.  I'm pleased to have discovered this group earlier
in the week and find
the user base both insightful AND affable, a rare combination to anyone
that's been on the net for
a long time. So, I'll throw in my tip of the day, before I try to borrow
your collective insight
*s*.  

When designing sites, ultimately bandwidth and navigability are paramount.
Hence, Useit.com,
mentioned in a prior post, is an excellent resource, as is Phillip and
Alex's Guide to Web
Publishing (http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/).  The later, a book by
Phillip Greenspun, is
entirely online and worth the read, by both professional developers and
those newer to the
industry.

Now speaking to my problem, I'm attempting to interface a legacy mainframe
system (IBM CICS) and
am attempting to find a middleware solution to accomplish this.  It's for an
intranet system and
the users are used to greenscreen response times (i.e. subsecond), hence
I've gotta have speed. 
On the front end, I've designed the navigability for speed, but upon testing
several middleware
products (i.e. WebSphere *cringe*, ScreenSufer *wince*, and Crossplex
*pretty good, but extremely
expensive*) I can't find the right one.  I've been continuing my research
into PHP as I hear you
can link it straight to DB2, but I'm wondering what kind of response time
I'll have.  Has anyone
done any work like that?  

Thanks in advance for any/all responses.

Most Sincerely,

Sean

*we are a product of our acronyms (i.e. html, js, xml, xhtml, cya, etc...)*





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