Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP
Today we announced two new products: Delphi/400 and Delphi/400 for PHP. You can find out more about them on the product page.
I’m pretty excited about this new product. We’ve worked with SystemObjects in the past, but we decided to take the partnership a step further and create an actual product that includes connectivity to AS/400 and System i machines. There are a lot of old, green-screen type applications out there that can now be easily and quickly modernized and brought to either the browser or the Windows desktop. Developers can access AS/400 and System i data just like any other data in Delphi — a few components hooked up together and you are running and displaying data immediately.
If you are a Delphi guy, this is good news — you can now get your foot in the door at companies that use AS/400s. You can show them how you can use Delphi to create powerful, rich GUI-based applications for them in Windows or in the browser.
If you already have Delphi, you can purchase the connectivity to AS/400 separately. If you don’t, you can buy the whole package together.
New? I’ve heard of it years ago and I though it was dead.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pmInteresting.
Nick, is the connectivity similar with JTOpen in Java (jtopen.org)?
March 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pmFabricio –
Actually, I believe it is basically the same technology as what you saw in Nashville. I remember that as well — Ben Riga, then the Delphi Product Manager, used to carry around an AS/400 box with him.
Wisnu –
I’m completely unfamiliar with JTOpen, and I can’t seem to get to their website, so I can’t say for sure.
Nick
March 12th, 2008 at 10:43 amSorry Nick it is a project in sourceforge.
http://jt400.sourceforge.net/
Is there any camtasia demo so we can take a look the delphi 400 version?
March 12th, 2008 at 11:30 pmWisnu –
Thanks for the correct link. In a brief look at JTOpen, it looks like our Delphi/400 solutions work much the same way. Basically, it is a set of connection and TDataset components that let you access AS/400 stuff just like any other database. You can hook up to all the data aware controls just like with Oracle, Interbase, SQL Server, whatever.
As for Camtasia demos, those are on the way.
NIck
March 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am