Number 8 is a list of sample vendors and software for e-business, where we are one of 14 vendors chosen. To remain competitive, you have to take advantage of Web technology. Yet, even as intranet technology matures, more and more IS professionals are finding that many of the basic challenges still remain. You've been here before. Business units need local, decentralized, departmental systems to maximize productivity.
Budgets are limited and evolving technologies are often unproven.
The expense of moving mainframe applications or data to other platforms can be prohibitive, and may not even make sense. After all, most mission-critical applications remain on the mainframe because only that platform can provide the reliability, security, and computing power needed to make them effective. A connection to host data and applications through a mainframe-based Web server. It manages pools of permanently active application servers, under native MVS, to significantly reduce CGI overhead. Typically, each CGI executes in its own address space and cannot share resources with others.