Re: Is Client/Server Dead? Conference May 15th

At 11:25 AM 4/24/96 GMT, Peter Wiley wrote: >Yes, you get pretty screens. This means it takes you 10 minutes to paint a >screen and a week to debug it (event-driven means users do *stupid* >things) as opposed to an hour to draw (being generous) and 2 days to debug. I love the mouse-driven controls that inevitably get put on GUI data *entry* screens. you have someone who sits at a terminal all day entering data and they have to pull their hand away from the keyboard to grab the mouse... but ya gotta admit, gui is so much sexier (and trendy) than that homely (yet efficient) 3270/5250/vt100 screen. very much worth the wait? I remember being under fire by our customers for providing a little greater than 1 second (average) response time on MVS CICS. They same customers then complained less about waiting 5-10 seconds for a VB/ODBC screen (their biggest concern was ensuring that the virus scan works so their brought-from-home software didn't infect the network). If only IBM had created solitaire and minesweeper for TSO.... :-) Ward Kaatz