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 Posted by Tyno Gendo on 04/07/07 19:53 
R. Vince wrote: 
> I'm been roped into a techical discussion next week as to whether our Java  
> applet / php site  can run on a "mainframe." (I know not what kind of  
> "mainframe" 
> or OS). 
>  
> Is this kind of thing even in the realm of possibility? Or should i tell 
> them to rewrite the whole thing in COBOL? 
>  
> Thanks  
>  
>  
 
Depends what OS the mainframe uses.  Is a version of Apache available  
for it?  If the answer is yes, then the likelyhood is that PHP will be  
fine.  Java applet should not care as long as there is a web server on  
the mainframe as java applets run client-side, the machine would just  
have to be capable of serving web pages, but for PHP it would need to be  
able to either run Apache with mod_php or have the capability of running  
php as a CGI program (apache/mod_php preferred though for performance). 
 
I'm not a mainframe person, so it depends how old this system is, if  
you can give more specifics (preferably the actual OS and version) then  
I'm sure someone will give you a definate answer.
 
  
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