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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