The Internet's Impact on the Role of the Mainframe.

Enterprise Systems Journal,  September, 1998  by Currens, Ron

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An analysis of the impact of the Internet on mainframe computing is presented. The Web is now a common front end for legacy applications, and there are several approaches to placing a browser interface on applications running on a mainframe back end. Some use dedicated screen scrapers, while others combine a screen scraper with a mainframe Web server. There are dumb-terminal, fat-client and thin-client approaches as well; enterprise models are shifting rapidly.

Once the mainframe was synonymous with computing. Then the enterprise computing model began to shift to client/server. In the ...

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