[thelist] Flotsam and thensome

matthew garrett matthew.garrett at snet.net
Thu Apr 19 11:47:36 CDT 2001


This is not an endorsement, but Metaserver might do the kinds of things you
need done.

 From their website:
> Metaserver is designed to connect to any type of backend system, including
> Mainframe, Legacy, ERP & CRM, Enterprise Databases and Data Centers, Custom
> Applications and more.
> 
> Metaserver also supports a wide array of standards both on the front end as
> well as the back end. Standards supported include Java, EJB, CORBA, COM, XML,
> XSL, LDAP, JDBC, MQ Series, CICS, JSP, ASP, and Cold Fusion.

Read more, if you like:
http://www.metaserver.com/products.shtml?2,98


matt

> From: Sean Preston <razorwise at yahoo.com>

> 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?  





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