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I want three things:

An Insert key
No F-Lock
Correctly spaced F keys (F1-F4, F5-F8)

Thanks for the in-depth explanation, Peter.

That was a fantastic demo. I'm a mainframe enthusiast myself although I've never had direct access to a real one, I use the open source Hercules mainframe emulator with MVS and other free operating systems. I assume you're using the FLEX-ES commercial emulator in your demo running what looks like OS/390. I have a few questions about how NetManage works, since I've only used older IBM operating systems before the advent of TCP/IP. Is the web service running directly on the mainframe or would it run in a middle tier Windows/Linux server with some sort of application server (IIS or otherwise)? Where does the screen scraping take place? This relates back to my previous question. Is the screen scraped on the mainframe which then sends out the final data or is the entire screen scrape sent to another server for processing which then finally exposes the web service? Finally, if you wanted to expose a portion of a mainframe application which actually modified data rather than retrieving it, would you need to add a special step to tell the application to take input from another source and then automate the confirm step?

Thanks,
Tim

That app looks really cool. It's a shame that there's no API for Virtual PC and that Virtual Server 2005 will only run on Windows Server 2003 (and costs $499). Are there any possibilities of Virtual PC getting its own API, even if it's just a minimalist subset of the Virtual Server 2005 API?

I just finished watching the clip and I was really impressed. Despite the negative press ActiveX has been getting and the calls to get rid of it outright, this demo really shows the power of the technology. One of the things I really envy about Virtual Server 2005 that VirtualPC 2004 and VMware are missing is the open API. The web interface is also very cool. All in all a great interview/demo.

You guys read my mind! I was going to ask if there would be a Virtual Server 2005 demo too since most people haven't used it.

I'm glad you got an interview with Ben. His blog is one of my favorites. Will there be more interview segments?

Manip,

I don't think he's trying to win the coding award of the year. He repeatedly says how insecure the setup is and how you SHOULDN'T use his code in a production environment. He was just trying to show easy it is to create a basic moblog in .NET. Picky, picky, picky.

I really enjoyed this video. Is it possible to get any more demos/videos from this department of MS or about HIS/BizTalk? Possibly a tour of the hardware lab running the mainframes, too?

Thanks for the link! There's a lot of great info in the full disclosure report.