On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:47:44 -0600, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's about pretty colors, fancy fonts, drop down boxes, scroll bars, >drag and drop, point and click and you can't do that on the mainframe. >If IBM had embraced graphic screen application development 15 years ago >mainframes would still be the top business technology today. >People simply do not want ugly 3270 screens. They want pretty graphics >in their applications and are willing to sacrifice everything else for it. >It's clear that IBM still doesn't "get it".
Why do graphics belong on the server anyway? I don't want a Windows server to do the pretty graphics either. Put the pretty stuff on the client side, and put the data on the server side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
